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 Chile and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Babytalk to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
Ultimate Spinach,
New York Dolls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kas Product,
Skaos,
Ludus,
The Dirtbombs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fatback Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
China Crisis,
Rakim,
Marc Almond,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rotary Connection,
The Vogues,
Ultra Naté,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roger Hodgson,
John Foxx,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Babytalk,
The Offenders,
T. Rex,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moody Blues,
Saccharine Trust,
The Moleskins,
Television Personalities,
Wire,
The Evens,
Skarface,
Mark Hollis,
Barclay James Harvest,
DNA,
Peter & Gordon,
Crime,
Kaleidoscope,
Max Romeo,
Mission of Burma,
Graham Central Station,
Suburban Knight,
The Selecter,
The Doors,
Procol Harum,
Todd Terry,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Tommy Roe,
the Sonics,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soulsonic Force,
Jawbox,
Public Enemy,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gories,
The Cure,
48th St. Collective,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.