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 Thailand and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 chamberlin 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 Tomorrow to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Das Ding record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Barbara Tucker,
Pulsallama,
Moby Grape,
Joyce Sims,
kango's stein massive,
Janne Schatter,
Cymande,
Thee Headcoats,
Negative Approach,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nation of Ulysses,
Idris Muhammad,
Agitation Free,
Pussy Galore,
Eurythmics,
Todd Terry,
The Golliwogs,
cv313,
Reagan Youth,
Wire,
Ultra Naté,
Mad Mike,
The Residents,
Eric Dolphy,
Los Fastidios,
The Associates,
Quadrant,
The Skatalites,
Crispy Ambulance,
Moebius,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Darondo,
Morten Harket,
Saccharine Trust,
The Neon Judgement,
The Mojo Men,
June of 44,
Youth Brigade,
R.M.O.,
MDC,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Doobie Brothers,
Charles Mingus,
Tubeway Army,
Marine Girls,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jandek,
Thompson Twins,
Monolake,
Parry Music,
Donald Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Albert Ayler,
Dorothy Ashby,
Can,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun City Girls,
Bill Wells,
Amon Düül,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.