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 Peru and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sonics to the disco 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
The Young Rascals,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jacques Brel,
Mars,
FM Einheit,
Talk Talk,
Mandrill,
The Smoke,
Technova,
Aaron Thompson,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Steve Hackett,
Patti Smith,
The Seeds,
Boredoms,
Mr. Review,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Surgeon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Saccharine Trust,
Albert Ayler,
Archie Shepp,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nation of Ulysses,
Unwound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Panda Bear,
The Mummies,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yaz,
Soft Machine,
Barrington Levy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sixth Finger,
Scrapy,
10cc,
PIL,
Pere Ubu,
Crispy Ambulance,
Q and Not U,
Johnny Clarke,
Thee Headcoats,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Maurizio,
John Holt,
Jacob Miller,
Reuben Wilson,
The Raincoats,
Groovy Waters,
Banda Bassotti,
Soft Cell,
Ten City,
Livin' Joy,
Ultravox,
Gong,
Negative Approach,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Detroit Cobras,
Hashim,
Theoretical Girls,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.