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 Tonga and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ten City to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Basic Channel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalann,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rod Modell,
Bang On A Can,
Laurel Aitken,
Malaria!,
Agitation Free,
Fugazi,
Rufus Thomas,
Das Ding,
Basic Channel,
Sonic Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Aaron Thompson,
Scan 7,
Tom Boy,
Steve Hackett,
Desert Stars,
Peter and Kerry,
CMW,
Pet Shop Boys,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Move,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Don Cherry,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Dolphy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
Television,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
The Gladiators,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Interpol,
Jerry's Kids,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Cybotron,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Bourne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Maleditus Sound,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cameo,
The Remains,
David Bowie,
Monolake,
Arthur Verocai,
Can,
Marcia Griffiths,
The J.B.'s,
Quantec,
The Busters,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Zapp,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.