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 China and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Amon Düül II to the punk 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
Fela Kuti,
Basic Channel,
The Blues Magoos,
Joey Negro,
Monolake,
Saccharine Trust,
Maurizio,
Yaz,
EPMD,
Mad Mike,
Fear,
Freddie Wadling,
Das Ding,
Magma,
The Pretty Things,
Derrick Morgan,
Sugar Minott,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultra Naté,
Flash Fearless,
Masters at Work,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arcadia,
Harry Pussy,
The Golliwogs,
Negative Approach,
Agitation Free,
FM Einheit,
Faraquet,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Symarip,
This Heat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
KRS-One,
Nico,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Lyres,
Excepter,
Sight & Sound,
Altered Images,
Blossom Toes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sarah Menescal,
Robert Hood,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Severed Heads,
Loose Ends,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Q and Not U,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Mummies,
Ten City,
Tom Boy,
Wasted Youth,
Japan,
Au Pairs,
The Seeds,
Deadbeat,
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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.