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 Syria and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 organ 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 Rosa Yemen to the punk 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 the Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
Ohio Players,
Severed Heads,
Sun City Girls,
Eli Mardock,
Das Ding,
B.T. Express,
The Black Dice,
Von Mondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suicide,
Stereo Dub,
Wings,
Sexual Harrassment,
Chris Corsano,
The Electric Prunes,
Mark Hollis,
Ludus,
Man Eating Sloth,
Underground Resistance,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bad Manners,
Babytalk,
The Gladiators,
The Cramps,
Subhumans,
Ice-T,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aswad,
Guru Guru,
Unwound,
Scientists,
Ten City,
The Monks,
This Heat,
Toni Rubio,
Malaria!,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eve St. Jones,
Marvin Gaye,
Camberwell Now,
Buzzcocks,
Danielle Patucci,
Oblivians,
Grandmaster Flash,
Talk Talk,
Skaos,
Tres Demented,
Bobby Womack,
Sight & Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
World's Most,
Robert Wyatt,
Brothers Johnson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.