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 Madagascar and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 mellotron 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
David Bowie,
Adolescents,
Altered Images,
Kerri Chandler,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
The Last Poets,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joey Negro,
Tim Buckley,
The Fire Engines,
Althea and Donna,
Brothers Johnson,
Moss Icon,
Roxette,
The Blues Magoos,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MC5,
Fluxion,
The Busters,
Sight & Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Liliput,
Jeff Mills,
Deakin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Quando Quango,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gichy Dan,
Glenn Branca,
Ultra Naté,
Cymande,
The Zeros,
Unrelated Segments,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mr. Review,
Camberwell Now,
PIL,
Gong,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Khruangbin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Au Pairs,
Junior Murvin,
The Skatalites,
Jacques Brel,
Davy DMX,
Livin' Joy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Godley & Creme,
Lightning Bolt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Five Americans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Icehouse,
Joe Finger,
Bush Tetras,
Public Enemy,
Slave,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
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.