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 Afghanistan and from Woodstock.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Litter to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Camberwell Now,
Tomorrow,
Depeche Mode,
Clear Light,
Smog,
Lalo Schifrin,
Supertramp,
Aural Exciters,
Susan Cadogan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
ABBA,
Ultravox,
Zapp,
Pierre Henry,
Sister Nancy,
Cecil Taylor,
JFA,
This Heat,
Alphaville,
Negative Approach,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Matthew Halsall,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eve St. Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Divine Comedy,
the Association,
Bill Near,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Intrusion,
Yaz,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ultra Naté,
Josef K,
Bobby Byrd,
Vainqueur,
Essential Logic,
Animal Collective,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lucky Dragons,
Aswad,
June Days,
Pantytec,
Television Personalities,
Nas,
The American Breed,
Sam Rivers,
Japan,
The Invisible,
Jeru the Damaja,
Iggy Pop,
Skaos,
Lyres,
Kurtis Blow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
David Axelrod,
The Toasters,
Thompson Twins,
The Real Kids,
Slick Rick,
Shuggie Otis,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.