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 Kenya 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Holger Czukay 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 Amon Düül to the jazz 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All The Golliwogs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Neu!,
Erykah Badu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Roxette,
The Cramps,
Pantaleimon,
Mandrill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Faust,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fugs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Roger Hodgson,
Moebius,
Cymande,
Sister Nancy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Niagra,
Zero Boys,
Man Eating Sloth,
Marmalade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Section 25,
The Flesh Eaters,
Technova,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mad Mike,
Joy Division,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Fire Engines,
Howard Jones,
The Fall,
Nico,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ken Boothe,
H. Thieme,
Warsaw,
Crispy Ambulance,
Max Romeo,
Peter & Gordon,
Blossom Toes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barclay James Harvest,
Althea and Donna,
Alton Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Organ,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tim Buckley,
a-ha,
Thompson Twins,
Boredoms,
the Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.