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 Gambia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Little Man to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Pylon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Little Man,
a-ha,
Trumans Water,
Easy Going,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
CMW,
Shoche,
Rotary Connection,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Order,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tom Boy,
Suburban Knight,
Sonic Youth,
Interpol,
the Sonics,
Groovy Waters,
Peter and Kerry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Urselle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nico,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kerri Chandler,
Bauhaus,
The Move,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yazoo,
the Swans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Severed Heads,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Monolake,
Ludus,
Animal Collective,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gap Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Zero Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
Pylon,
X-101,
Porter Ricks,
Sex Pistols,
Hardrive,
The Victims,
Jacques Brel,
Swans,
Fat Boys,
Gong,
Mad Mike,
Flipper,
The Associates,
B.T. Express,
Erasure,
The Cowsills,
The Searchers,
David McCallum,
Lebanon Hanover,
Loose Ends,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.