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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 Taipei and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Skaos to the rock 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Pharoah Sanders,
Neil Young,
Lalo Schifrin,
Absolute Body Control,
ABBA,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter & Gordon,
Donald Byrd,
Roger Hodgson,
Jawbox,
Boredoms,
Fluxion,
Nation of Ulysses,
10cc,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dead Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Warren Ellis,
The Move,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Arthur Verocai,
The Buckinghams,
The Black Dice,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cramps,
Popol Vuh,
Average White Band,
Wally Richardson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Don Cherry,
Roxette,
Sugar Minott,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scientists,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bush Tetras,
The Leaves,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Gladiators,
Dark Day,
Dawn Penn,
Pole,
Bobby Sherman,
Agitation Free,
The Velvet Underground,
Lakeside,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Susan Cadogan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Delta 5,
The Angels of Light,
Wolf Eyes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Litter,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.