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 Macedonia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Black Moon to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABBA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Kurtis Blow,
The Fire Engines,
Sight & Sound,
Ornette Coleman,
Nirvana,
AZ,
Wings,
Iggy Pop,
Procol Harum,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joy Division,
Pere Ubu,
Kerri Chandler,
Trumans Water,
The Fuzztones,
Stereo Dub,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cluster,
Leonard Cohen,
Magazine,
Vainqueur,
Funkadelic,
Guru Guru,
Steve Hackett,
Kas Product,
Hot Snakes,
Newcleus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
ABC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roxette,
Scrapy,
Skriet,
Robert Wyatt,
Bill Wells,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dark Day,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Selecter,
Jawbox,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Interpol,
Hoover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tomorrow,
Alice Coltrane,
LL Cool J,
Saccharine Trust,
Boz Scaggs,
The Trojans,
Youth Brigade,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.