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 Thailand and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Zeros to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
Lightning Bolt,
The Skatalites,
The Trojans,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Zeros,
Electric Light Orchestra,
X-Ray Spex,
Pole,
Sällskapet,
Rufus Thomas,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grey Daturas,
Swans,
Jerry's Kids,
Trumans Water,
The Fall,
The Durutti Column,
Matthew Bourne,
Donny Hathaway,
Bluetip,
Minor Threat,
Groovy Waters,
10cc,
Moebius,
Spandau Ballet,
Harmonia,
H. Thieme,
Slick Rick,
Glambeats Corp.,
Warren Ellis,
This Heat,
The Toasters,
The Birthday Party,
The Gories,
The Divine Comedy,
Ronan,
Joey Negro,
New Order,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
The Gun Club,
John Holt,
Fugazi,
The Busters,
Radiohead,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacob Miller,
EPMD,
Jeru the Damaja,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
kango's stein massive,
Lyres,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Subhumans,
Amon Düül,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Make Up,
Tim Buckley,
Moss Icon,
Cymande,
Throbbing Gristle,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.