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 France and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 the Association to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Charles Mingus,
Yellowson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Little Man,
Wire,
Technova,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Danielle Patucci,
Brand Nubian,
Heaven 17,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
Blancmange,
Johnny Clarke,
Silicon Teens,
This Heat,
Can,
CMW,
Essential Logic,
L. Decosne,
Shoche,
The Blackbyrds,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Star Department,
Rites of Spring,
Electric Prunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sällskapet,
The Searchers,
Ituana,
Whodini,
Marine Girls,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Slits,
Al Stewart,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Siglo XX,
Terry Callier,
Joyce Sims,
Hot Snakes,
Franke,
Ultra Naté,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ronnie Foster,
Tommy Roe,
Erasure,
Simply Red,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Stooges,
Mars,
Make Up,
the Germs,
Grauzone,
Radiohead,
Accadde A,
Au Pairs,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Five Americans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers.
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.