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 Monaco and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Khruangbin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gong,
John Cale,
Lungfish,
Ten City,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bauhaus,
Jeff Lynne,
Scan 7,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Litter,
T. Rex,
The Human League,
Peter and Kerry,
Eden Ahbez,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pantytec,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drexciya,
Oblivians,
kango's stein massive,
Godley & Creme,
The Fire Engines,
ABBA,
Lakeside,
David Bowie,
Quando Quango,
Young Marble Giants,
Nas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Y Pants,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Walker Brothers,
Siglo XX,
Saccharine Trust,
H. Thieme,
Radiohead,
Blancmange,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lou Christie,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Womack,
Frankie Knuckles,
Donny Hathaway,
Jandek,
Johnny Osbourne,
Susan Cadogan,
Magma,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily, Byron Stingily.
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.