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 Hungary and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Holger Czukay 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 Animal Collective to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Cybotron,
The Monks,
Porter Ricks,
Lakeside,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moebius,
Spoonie Gee,
Godley & Creme,
Clear Light,
Peter and Kerry,
Minny Pops,
Anakelly,
Guru Guru,
Pantaleimon,
Silicon Teens,
Robert Wyatt,
New Age Steppers,
Rufus Thomas,
Lou Christie,
Al Stewart,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Symarip,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Blake Baxter,
Gastr Del Sol,
48th St. Collective,
MC5,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Order,
X-101,
Magma,
Flamin' Groovies,
PIL,
Banda Bassotti,
China Crisis,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pole,
Matthew Bourne,
Dave Gahan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Inner City,
Whodini,
CMW,
Grey Daturas,
Qualms,
Bootsy Collins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Toasters,
Scratch Acid,
Jimmy McGriff,
Judy Mowatt,
The Five Americans,
Make Up,
The Walker Brothers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Agitation Free,
The New Christs,
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.