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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the grunge 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Pylon,
Lyres,
Vladislav Delay,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eden Ahbez,
The Walker Brothers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nick Fraelich,
Cecil Taylor,
The Star Department,
Chris Corsano,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Moon,
Lalo Schifrin,
DJ Style,
Maurizio,
Boz Scaggs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Leonard Cohen,
Aaron Thompson,
JFA,
Yazoo,
The Residents,
Byron Stingily,
Bronski Beat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dead Boys,
Ten City,
Agent Orange,
48th St. Collective,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siglo XX,
Inner City,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pole,
Tres Demented,
Warsaw,
Au Pairs,
Sound Behaviour,
CMW,
Wolf Eyes,
Slick Rick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Erasure,
Soft Machine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soul II Soul,
X-101,
Dawn Penn,
Terrestrial Tones,
Second Layer,
Harmonia,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mandrill,
Ludus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.