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 Finland and from Stockholm.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Oblivians 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Byron Stingily,
Laurel Aitken,
OOIOO,
The Grass Roots,
Rhythm & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Pylon,
Absolute Body Control,
Angry Samoans,
JFA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Seeds,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Glambeats Corp.,
Connie Case,
Hashim,
Hardrive,
The Saints,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Trojans,
Sixth Finger,
Warsaw,
Neu!,
The Mojo Men,
Roxy Music,
Idris Muhammad,
The Sonics,
Rosa Yemen,
Kenny Larkin,
Sun City Girls,
David McCallum,
Tommy Roe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Residents,
The Durutti Column,
Ohio Players,
Altered Images,
48th St. Collective,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gun Club,
Sex Pistols,
Aaron Thompson,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Groovy Waters,
Girls At Our Best!,
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Machine,
Gabor Szabo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Japan,
Vladislav Delay,
Warren Ellis,
Porter Ricks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Charles Mingus,
ABBA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hoover,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.