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 France and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Woodstock.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Tom Boy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lower 48,
Sun City Girls,
Althea and Donna,
Supertramp,
The Divine Comedy,
The Stooges,
The Mummies,
The Cure,
Buzzcocks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Juan Atkins,
Wire,
Marvin Gaye,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flipper,
Von Mondo,
Sun Ra,
Clear Light,
Pylon,
Eden Ahbez,
Tres Demented,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Saccharine Trust,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-Ray Spex,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
UT,
Malaria!,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sixth Finger,
Royal Trux,
The Blues Magoos,
The Victims,
Monks,
Ludus,
Bizarre Inc.,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yaz,
Robert Wyatt,
Minor Threat,
The Busters,
Gang of Four,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
48th St. Collective,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lakeside,
Agitation Free,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
The Misunderstood,
Brothers Johnson,
The Invisible,
Cybotron,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Warsaw,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Bar-Kays,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.