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 Swaziland and from Manila.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Magazine to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Trojans. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Jeff Lynne,
The Standells,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
48th St. Collective,
Q and Not U,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Josef K,
The Pretty Things,
Joe Smooth,
Nirvana,
Jimmy McGriff,
Main Source,
Public Enemy,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sight & Sound,
Joy Division,
Echospace,
Funky Four + One,
The Gun Club,
These Immortal Souls,
The Neon Judgement,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MDC,
Marine Girls,
Chrome,
Eli Mardock,
Minnie Riperton,
Blossom Toes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bush Tetras,
Ultra Naté,
Rites of Spring,
Colin Newman,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gap Band,
Ice-T,
Icehouse,
Unwound,
Rufus Thomas,
F. McDonald,
Robert Hood,
Matthew Halsall,
Barry Ungar,
David Bowie,
the Swans,
The Skatalites,
Zero Boys,
The Cure,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
Mo-Dettes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Arthur Verocai,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.