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 Albania and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Audionom to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Red Krayola record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Joey Negro,
Lakeside,
Tim Buckley,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
The Five Americans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wolf Eyes,
Jeff Lynne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Dorothy Ashby,
48th St. Collective,
Deadbeat,
Fugazi,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Deepchord,
the Human League,
OOIOO,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joy Division,
Marvin Gaye,
The Music Machine,
Jimmy McGriff,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marmalade,
China Crisis,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sister Nancy,
Barrington Levy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mad Mike,
Royal Trux,
Robert Wyatt,
The Human League,
Mark Hollis,
Electric Prunes,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Victims,
Amazonics,
Kurtis Blow,
Ohio Players,
World's Most,
Althea and Donna,
The Names,
Sight & Sound,
Chrome,
Stetsasonic,
Popol Vuh,
Niagra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
D'Angelo,
L. Decosne,
Rites of Spring,
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Modern Lovers,
The Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.