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 Barbados and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
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 Urselle to the rock 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alison Limerick,
Radio Birdman,
Masters at Work,
The Raincoats,
Popol Vuh,
Blossom Toes,
Young Marble Giants,
Marine Girls,
New Age Steppers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gang of Four,
Motorama,
Eden Ahbez,
Amon Düül,
Johnny Clarke,
Cybotron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alice Coltrane,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bluetip,
Sex Pistols,
Main Source,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
John Holt,
Joe Finger,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dave Clark Five,
Von Mondo,
10cc,
Terry Callier,
Tubeway Army,
The Star Department,
Josef K,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Warren Ellis,
The Golliwogs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Black Pus,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Roxy Music,
K-Klass,
The Fuzztones,
Darondo,
Minutemen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Suicide,
Maleditus Sound,
Bad Manners,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cal Tjader,
Al Stewart,
Neil Young,
Black Sheep,
Crispy Ambulance,
L. Decosne,
Q and Not U,
Tom Boy,
Stereo Dub,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.