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 Moldova and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Maurizio to the disco 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Wyatt,
Matthew Halsall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dave Gahan,
Khruangbin,
The Names,
the Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
Morten Harket,
Smog,
The Buckinghams,
Kurtis Blow,
Half Japanese,
Eric Dolphy,
The Techniques,
AZ,
Zapp,
Bobby Womack,
The Monochrome Set,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Groovy Waters,
The Victims,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Yazoo,
Pylon,
Stetsasonic,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Big Daddy Kane,
Junior Murvin,
PIL,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lungfish,
10cc,
Q65,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Blossom Toes,
Country Teasers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Newcleus,
Mandrill,
Iggy Pop,
The Slackers,
Scion,
Alison Limerick,
Alphaville,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Organ,
La Düsseldorf,
Rites of Spring,
Magma,
The Mojo Men,
Sam Rivers,
Mission of Burma,
The Associates,
The Standells,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sonny Sharrock,
T. Rex,
Popol Vuh,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.