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 Iraq and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 EPMD to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Martian,
Peter and Kerry,
Arcadia,
Tim Buckley,
Unwound,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joyce Sims,
The New Christs,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Soft Cell,
Dead Boys,
Stetsasonic,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Echospace,
Pylon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sound Behaviour,
Lungfish,
Mark Hollis,
Hoover,
The Gun Club,
Bobby Byrd,
Fatback Band,
Jandek,
Massinfluence,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lakeside,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ten City,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Busters,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Brothers Johnson,
Section 25,
Josef K,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Tres Demented,
Flamin' Groovies,
Icehouse,
Deepchord,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Misunderstood,
the Association,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pussy Galore,
The Blackbyrds,
Brick,
Erasure,
Minny Pops,
The Moody Blues,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sugar Minott,
Animal Collective,
Talk Talk,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Toasters,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.