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 Venezuela and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Harmonia to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aloha Tigers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Skaos,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Walker Brothers,
Slave,
The Fuzztones,
L. Decosne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nico,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Angry Samoans,
Hot Snakes,
Rekid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Throbbing Gristle,
Roxy Music,
Bobby Sherman,
Little Man,
K-Klass,
The Smoke,
Panda Bear,
Dave Gahan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Donny Hathaway,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
Public Image Ltd.,
Von Mondo,
Animal Collective,
Lower 48,
The Angels of Light,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
China Crisis,
Lindisfarne,
F. McDonald,
Cymande,
kango's stein massive,
Groovy Waters,
Heaven 17,
The New Christs,
Aswad,
Jacob Miller,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television Personalities,
Sixth Finger,
the Germs,
Mr. Review,
The Buckinghams,
The Mojo Men,
David Bowie,
Babytalk,
Barry Ungar,
Easy Going,
Mandrill,
Rites of Spring,
X-102,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.