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 Luxembourg and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Animal Collective to the techno 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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every U.S. Maple 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Soulsonic Force,
Accadde A,
Laurel Aitken,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bobby Sherman,
Blake Baxter,
The Pretty Things,
KRS-One,
Barbara Tucker,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Darondo,
Procol Harum,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marine Girls,
Connie Case,
Goldenarms,
Tubeway Army,
Josef K,
Niagra,
The Stooges,
Roy Ayers,
Bobby Byrd,
The Victims,
the Bar-Kays,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Aloha Tigers,
Ludus,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
June Days,
Talk Talk,
Blossom Toes,
The Doors,
Swans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Invisible,
Soft Cell,
The Remains,
Todd Rundgren,
Television,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eli Mardock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scion,
Alphaville,
Scratch Acid,
The Young Rascals,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fear,
Kenny Larkin,
UT,
Johnny Osbourne,
Hardrive,
Half Japanese,
Popol Vuh,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.