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 India and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 a-ha to the disco 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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Stereo Dub,
Tom Boy,
In Retrospect,
Brothers Johnson,
The Saints,
Lightning Bolt,
Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Urselle,
Kayak,
Schoolly D,
Traffic Nightmare,
Silicon Teens,
Cluster,
Young Marble Giants,
Anakelly,
Morten Harket,
The American Breed,
Letta Mbulu,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABBA,
Angry Samoans,
Robert Wyatt,
Cybotron,
EPMD,
Quando Quango,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Prunes,
Gang of Four,
Sarah Menescal,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sun Ra,
The Durutti Column,
The New Christs,
48th St. Collective,
Television Personalities,
Bush Tetras,
Isaac Hayes,
The Motions,
John Holt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
FM Einheit,
Bad Manners,
Prince Buster,
Scratch Acid,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sound Behaviour,
Reuben Wilson,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Invisible,
Barry Ungar,
The Cramps,
Oneida,
Janne Schatter,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Music Machine,
Royal Trux,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.