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 Peru and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Archie Shepp to the disco 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs 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 '80s.
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 Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Das Ding,
Joy Division,
Albert Ayler,
The Gap Band,
Nik Kershaw,
Marmalade,
Rod Modell,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ohio Players,
Crash Course in Science,
Sex Pistols,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Lightning Bolt,
Michelle Simonal,
Fugazi,
Procol Harum,
Minor Threat,
Electric Prunes,
The Neon Judgement,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
Inner City,
Joe Finger,
Joyce Sims,
Scion,
Sun Ra,
Mandrill,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Blues Magoos,
Prince Buster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Moby Grape,
EPMD,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Organ,
The Techniques,
Model 500,
Interpol,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dave Gahan,
Mary Jane Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Index,
The Invisible,
Crispian St. Peters,
Cybotron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bush Tetras,
Barrington Levy,
Pantytec,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
Thee Headcoats,
The Tremeloes,
Brand Nubian,
Pere Ubu,
The Doors,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.