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 Iraq and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ten City to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Pet Shop Boys,
Smog,
The Wake,
The Gun Club,
Al Stewart,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kayak,
Black Bananas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sam Rivers,
Matthew Bourne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jerry's Kids,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crime,
Tom Boy,
Cheater Slicks,
Minnie Riperton,
Minny Pops,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lungfish,
Clear Light,
U.S. Maple,
Fad Gadget,
Joey Negro,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Neon Judgement,
The Techniques,
The Slits,
KRS-One,
Pharoah Sanders,
Toni Rubio,
Pylon,
UT,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Starr,
Soulsonic Force,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
James White and The Blacks,
The Litter,
Ralphi Rosario,
Faust,
The Electric Prunes,
Arab on Radar,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fatback Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grey Daturas,
Bang On A Can,
Robert Wyatt,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Vogues,
Stetsasonic,
Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman, Bobby Sherman.
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.