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 Hungary and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tropical Tobacco to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cure. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerrie Biddell,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kaleidoscope,
The Associates,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scan 7,
The Zeros,
Basic Channel,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slave,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
Glenn Branca,
Kerri Chandler,
Deepchord,
Lalann,
Neu!,
Prince Buster,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joensuu 1685,
Yellowson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
James White and The Blacks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Interpol,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Tremeloes,
Alison Limerick,
Popol Vuh,
Warsaw,
Radiohead,
Subhumans,
Boredoms,
The Modern Lovers,
Ohio Players,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
cv313,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bush Tetras,
Pantytec,
The Count Five,
Moby Grape,
Massinfluence,
Can,
Sister Nancy,
The Victims,
Crime,
Funky Four + One,
Au Pairs,
Trumans Water,
Quantec,
The Slits,
Piero Umiliani,
Alphaville,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Unwound,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.