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 Oman and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Piero Umiliani record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
OOIOO,
Spandau Ballet,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Animal Collective,
The Red Krayola,
Cameo,
X-102,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Delon & Dalcan,
Albert Ayler,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Vogues,
Agitation Free,
Motorama,
June of 44,
Sixth Finger,
Public Enemy,
Supertramp,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Danielle Patucci,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Searchers,
The Standells,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
John Holt,
Grauzone,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABC,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül,
Radiohead,
Bizarre Inc.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deepchord,
Average White Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Graham Central Station,
Ice-T,
Brand Nubian,
Rakim,
Don Cherry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Walker Brothers,
Pagans,
DNA,
Chris & Cosey,
Rod Modell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Angry Samoans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
K-Klass,
Mr. Review,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.