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 Lesotho and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tres Demented to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Eli Mardock,
The Walker Brothers,
Negative Approach,
Popol Vuh,
Monks,
Ronan,
Heaven 17,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Human League,
Deepchord,
Howard Jones,
Con Funk Shun,
The Fuzztones,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gun Club,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Tommy Roe,
Funky Four + One,
Lyres,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Sherman,
Grauzone,
Tom Boy,
The Young Rascals,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bauhaus,
Urselle,
Lalo Schifrin,
Harry Pussy,
The Victims,
Michelle Simonal,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Alison Limerick,
Q65,
Cluster,
The Sonics,
Dual Sessions,
ABBA,
Dennis Brown,
Babytalk,
Shoche,
Tomorrow,
Kerri Chandler,
Moebius,
Goldenarms,
Drexciya,
EPMD,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mo-Dettes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marmalade,
Altered Images,
Scion,
Radio Birdman,
Franke,
Connie Case,
Derrick May,
Maurizio,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.