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 Sri Lanka and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 808 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 Rapeman to the grunge 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Black Flag,
Faust,
A Certain Ratio,
Procol Harum,
Boredoms,
Pussy Galore,
Absolute Body Control,
Symarip,
ABBA,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brand Nubian,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Goldenarms,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nation of Ulysses,
The Invisible,
Animal Collective,
Con Funk Shun,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kayak,
Malaria!,
Sandy B,
Brass Construction,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Althea and Donna,
The Velvet Underground,
Index,
Faraquet,
The Litter,
The Leaves,
Parry Music,
OOIOO,
Fela Kuti,
Q65,
Bill Near,
David Axelrod,
The Gories,
The Dave Clark Five,
New Order,
Skaos,
Erasure,
DJ Sneak,
Don Cherry,
Cal Tjader,
Nick Fraelich,
The Grass Roots,
Wolf Eyes,
The Sound,
Joe Finger,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Fad Gadget,
Delta 5,
Lalann,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Clear Light,
Aural Exciters,
Minny Pops,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.