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 United Kingdom and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Walker Brothers to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispian St. Peters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
The Gun Club,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gabor Szabo,
10cc,
Josef K,
Pulsallama,
Adolescents,
UT,
Altered Images,
Cecil Taylor,
Kenny Larkin,
Massinfluence,
Radio Birdman,
The Slackers,
A Certain Ratio,
Eurythmics,
Unrelated Segments,
Von Mondo,
Pantaleimon,
MC5,
Charles Mingus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bronski Beat,
Q65,
Echospace,
Soul II Soul,
Brand Nubian,
The Angels of Light,
Subhumans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Scott Walker,
T. Rex,
Sonny Sharrock,
Drexciya,
Curtis Mayfield,
Guru Guru,
The Five Americans,
The Leaves,
The Sonics,
Mandrill,
Hasil Adkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rotary Connection,
the Soft Cell,
Liliput,
Brick,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thee Headcoats,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
48th St. Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Monolake,
Grauzone,
Joyce Sims,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rapeman,
John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.