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 Estonia and from Copenhagen.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Bremen.
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 oboe 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 Duran Duran to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Warsaw. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tears for Fears record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Jawbox,
Junior Murvin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Q and Not U,
Absolute Body Control,
Pere Ubu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
X-101,
The Sonics,
Scan 7,
Minutemen,
Swell Maps,
Technova,
Aaron Thompson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Moody Blues,
Cybotron,
Television Personalities,
Nik Kershaw,
Isaac Hayes,
Simply Red,
Silicon Teens,
The Doors,
Eli Mardock,
Peter and Kerry,
Kenny Larkin,
Ossler,
Althea and Donna,
Robert Görl,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young,
Charles Mingus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Victims,
Derrick May,
Dark Day,
The Fall,
Panda Bear,
Reagan Youth,
The Techniques,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pole,
Infiniti,
The Evens,
Gang Green,
The Fuzztones,
Echospace,
Tres Demented,
Parry Music,
Jeff Mills,
L. Decosne,
Wire,
Scott Walker,
Slick Rick,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.