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 Guyana and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Jesper Dahlback to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
The Invisible,
Alton Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
Camouflage,
Robert Görl,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ultravox,
Steve Hackett,
Chris Corsano,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Essential Logic,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
Tom Boy,
Avey Tare,
Stockholm Monsters,
Clear Light,
Man Parrish,
Black Flag,
Saccharine Trust,
Half Japanese,
A Certain Ratio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Human League,
Chris & Cosey,
Sällskapet,
ABC,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Music Machine,
Grauzone,
Panda Bear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Erykah Badu,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Real Kids,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Radiohead,
The Dirtbombs,
Anakelly,
The Blackbyrds,
The Monks,
Easy Going,
Altered Images,
Wolf Eyes,
Joe Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Au Pairs,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
X-Ray Spex,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Flesh Eaters,
PIL,
The Star Department,
Tubeway Army,
Sandy B,
Monolake,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.