Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Burkina and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Nirvana to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
The Index,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry's Kids,
The Seeds,
Jawbox,
Eden Ahbez,
Donald Byrd,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camberwell Now,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The United States of America,
OOIOO,
8 Eyed Spy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rufus Thomas,
Pagans,
Sällskapet,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
The Fortunes,
Delta 5,
Johnny Clarke,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Tubeway Army,
The Modern Lovers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Searchers,
One Last Wish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Urselle,
kango's stein massive,
Todd Terry,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fugs,
Steve Hackett,
Mantronix,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Moleskins,
Tommy Roe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Durutti Column,
Aaron Thompson,
Ornette Coleman,
The Martian,
Main Source,
Television,
Scrapy,
Michelle Simonal,
the Human League,
Lightning Bolt,
Nas,
Wolf Eyes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.