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 Lithuania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 synthesizer 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 The Toasters to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Matthew Halsall. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tres Demented,
The Last Poets,
Accadde A,
The Happenings,
Boogie Down Productions,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soft Cell,
Fluxion,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Glambeats Corp.,
Liliput,
The Busters,
Kerri Chandler,
Sister Nancy,
Schoolly D,
Wally Richardson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Zeros,
10cc,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Theoretical Girls,
Camouflage,
Crash Course in Science,
Andrew Hill,
Crispian St. Peters,
Swell Maps,
Japan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gladiators,
Kool Moe Dee,
Ossler,
Aaron Thompson,
Joy Division,
The Shadows of Knight,
Tubeway Army,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-101,
Hoover,
Lalann,
Los Fastidios,
Michelle Simonal,
Sam Rivers,
Janne Schatter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Sonics,
Inner City,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
The Sound,
Audionom,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lebanon Hanover,
Main Source,
The Pretty Things,
Reuben Wilson,
The Blackbyrds,
Black Flag,
R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O., R.M.O..
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.