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 Libya and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 guitar 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 Maleditus Sound to the dance 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
The Last Poets,
the Slits,
Maleditus Sound,
New Age Steppers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Skaos,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Iggy Pop,
Shoche,
Blancmange,
Moebius,
Wings,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Schoolly D,
The Fugs,
The Golliwogs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Holt,
10cc,
Jeff Lynne,
U.S. Maple,
Dennis Brown,
Aswad,
Ken Boothe,
Judy Mowatt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David McCallum,
MC5,
Cluster,
The Smoke,
DJ Style,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Guru Guru,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Alison Limerick,
Lower 48,
Lakeside,
The Moleskins,
Jacob Miller,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Negative Approach,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
Dark Day,
Kevin Saunderson,
Derrick May,
Gabor Szabo,
The J.B.'s,
The Raincoats,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Stooges,
Royal Trux,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eli Mardock,
La Düsseldorf,
Siglo XX,
June Days,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.