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 Sweden and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 UT to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fad Gadget,
Bang On A Can,
Panda Bear,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Con Funk Shun,
Gang Gang Dance,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mad Mike,
kango's stein massive,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marc Almond,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Main Source,
Accadde A,
Steve Hackett,
Subhumans,
Darondo,
Kas Product,
Joensuu 1685,
Bizarre Inc.,
Siglo XX,
The Move,
Amon Düül,
Aaron Thompson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DJ Style,
Tubeway Army,
Television Personalities,
Boogie Down Productions,
New Order,
Scion,
Roxy Music,
Cymande,
The Angels of Light,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sonic Youth,
The Invisible,
Little Man,
Mark Hollis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Man Parrish,
Television,
Magma,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tomorrow,
Bluetip,
Soul Sonic Force,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kenny Larkin,
The Music Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Neil Young,
Magazine,
Electric Prunes,
Soft Cell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.