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 Kiribati and from London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 Pet Shop Boys to the techno 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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
The Knickerbockers,
June Days,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
New York Dolls,
KRS-One,
Shuggie Otis,
The Doors,
R.M.O.,
Hot Snakes,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
10cc,
Stetsasonic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Stereo Dub,
The Fuzztones,
The Sound,
Byron Stingily,
Faraquet,
Tomorrow,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cybotron,
LL Cool J,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Altered Images,
Carl Craig,
Colin Newman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Heaven 17,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lightning Bolt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
E-Dancer,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Axelrod,
Magma,
Grey Daturas,
The Fortunes,
The Stooges,
Derrick May,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Wyatt,
Junior Murvin,
Minny Pops,
Talk Talk,
Shoche,
Excepter,
The Durutti Column,
The Monochrome Set,
Marvin Gaye,
Agitation Free,
Black Flag,
Ice-T,
Rekid,
Jeff Lynne,
The Count Five,
Spoonie Gee,
The Pop Group,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.