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 Colombia and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 The Evens to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Reagan Youth,
Pagans,
The Young Rascals,
Tim Buckley,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tommy Roe,
Roxy Music,
Section 25,
R.M.O.,
Fat Boys,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter & Gordon,
Janne Schatter,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dennis Brown,
Quando Quango,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Avey Tare,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jesper Dahlback,
Con Funk Shun,
Qualms,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bill Near,
Second Layer,
New Order,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Public Enemy,
One Last Wish,
Nico,
Theoretical Girls,
Patti Smith,
Darondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Nirvana,
Whodini,
Mission of Burma,
The Electric Prunes,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Human League,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Excepter,
The Mojo Men,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Blackbyrds,
Flipper,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pulsallama,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Beau Brummels,
Crash Course in Science,
Kool Moe Dee,
Interpol,
Cluster,
Q and Not U,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.