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 Poland and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mumbai.
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 linndrum 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 The Evens to the grunge 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every a-ha 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Visage,
DJ Style,
Joyce Sims,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boz Scaggs,
Rosa Yemen,
Warren Ellis,
Davy DMX,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Misunderstood,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
Trumans Water,
Deadbeat,
Brass Construction,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Normal,
Prince Buster,
Faraquet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Germs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Urselle,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Cure,
Moss Icon,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Mantronix,
The Music Machine,
The Fortunes,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Durutti Column,
Tres Demented,
The Doobie Brothers,
Eric Dolphy,
Tears for Fears,
Interpol,
Pharoah Sanders,
Joe Finger,
Bang On A Can,
Ice-T,
Buzzcocks,
Whodini,
Johnny Clarke,
Fela Kuti,
Deepchord,
Godley & Creme,
Eric B and Rakim,
Zero Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fugs,
Scratch Acid,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.