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 Lesotho and from London.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 spring reverb 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 Lebanon Hanover to the rock 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Supertramp,
The Gun Club,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Bizarre Inc.,
T. Rex,
The Cure,
Throbbing Gristle,
Q and Not U,
Gang of Four,
The Velvet Underground,
These Immortal Souls,
The Cramps,
Kevin Saunderson,
Desert Stars,
Yellowson,
David Axelrod,
Aaron Thompson,
Mantronix,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
The Real Kids,
Pulsallama,
Pole,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Byrd,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Remains,
Deakin,
Bauhaus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Anakelly,
Newcleus,
Neu!,
Lalann,
Nation of Ulysses,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Lakeside,
Soft Machine,
Massinfluence,
Nik Kershaw,
Siglo XX,
The Golliwogs,
Surgeon,
John Cale,
The Names,
The Beau Brummels,
Ronnie Foster,
Wire,
Spoonie Gee,
The Mojo Men,
Mission of Burma,
Section 25,
Grandmaster Flash,
Avey Tare,
Robert Wyatt,
Organ, Organ, Organ, Organ.
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.