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 Ukraine and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Infiniti to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Harmonia,
Agent Orange,
John Holt,
One Last Wish,
Peter and Kerry,
Outsiders,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
Derrick May,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sight & Sound,
Excepter,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DJ Sneak,
Tim Buckley,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Wells,
Minor Threat,
Boogie Down Productions,
Technova,
Television,
Parry Music,
Harry Pussy,
Fad Gadget,
Radio Birdman,
Dead Boys,
The Moody Blues,
Laurel Aitken,
The Selecter,
Jacques Brel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Count Five,
Motorama,
The Durutti Column,
Royal Trux,
the Soft Cell,
CMW,
R.M.O.,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swell Maps,
Josef K,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stiv Bators,
Curtis Mayfield,
Franke,
Robert Wyatt,
Monolake,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Faust,
Alice Coltrane,
Glenn Branca,
Brand Nubian,
La Düsseldorf,
Kaleidoscope,
Soulsonic Force,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.