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 Israel and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 güiro 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Kurtis Blow,
Urselle,
One Last Wish,
Stiv Bators,
Kenny Larkin,
Nils Olav,
Rufus Thomas,
Youth Brigade,
The American Breed,
The Knickerbockers,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
Gabor Szabo,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Terry,
Cybotron,
Visage,
The Blackbyrds,
World's Most,
Colin Newman,
Shuggie Otis,
John Foxx,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crash Course in Science,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Prince Buster,
Scion,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Alice Coltrane,
Piero Umiliani,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cheater Slicks,
Negative Approach,
Janne Schatter,
Rod Modell,
Dual Sessions,
The Walker Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
Suburban Knight,
Outsiders,
the Sonics,
Joe Finger,
LL Cool J,
OOIOO,
Lindisfarne,
Oblivians,
Sällskapet,
The Invisible,
Arthur Verocai,
Michelle Simonal,
Amazonics,
Liliput,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tears for Fears,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zapp,
Trumans Water,
Fela Kuti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.