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 Latvia and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 Johnny Osbourne 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 Tubeway Army. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Anakelly,
Rites of Spring,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Altered Images,
48th St. Collective,
Avey Tare,
Terrestrial Tones,
Max Romeo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
Isaac Hayes,
Freddie Wadling,
Mo-Dettes,
Lungfish,
Heaven 17,
Quando Quango,
Alton Ellis,
Barrington Levy,
Audionom,
The Music Machine,
The Young Rascals,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gang Green,
F. McDonald,
Interpol,
The Remains,
The Slackers,
Minor Threat,
Derrick Morgan,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Christie,
The Saints,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kerri Chandler,
MC5,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rapeman,
The Slits,
Howard Jones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Theoretical Girls,
Royal Trux,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gerry Rafferty,
Aural Exciters,
Dual Sessions,
Pierre Henry,
Blake Baxter,
Infiniti,
Fad Gadget,
The Divine Comedy,
Eric Dolphy,
kango's stein massive,
Jandek,
Jacob Miller,
Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
The Zeros,
the Normal, the Normal, the Normal, the Normal.
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.