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 Laos and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gabor Szabo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ponytail,
Amon Düül II,
The Mojo Men,
Kaleidoscope,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
EPMD,
Janne Schatter,
The Doobie Brothers,
Subhumans,
FM Einheit,
Newcleus,
X-102,
Swell Maps,
The Mummies,
Soft Cell,
Masters at Work,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Searchers,
Neu!,
Zapp,
Darondo,
World's Most,
James White and The Blacks,
The Electric Prunes,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The United States of America,
Main Source,
Delon & Dalcan,
E-Dancer,
Terrestrial Tones,
Cluster,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jawbox,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Almond,
John Cale,
The Gap Band,
Joey Negro,
F. McDonald,
Donny Hathaway,
Quantec,
Curtis Mayfield,
the Association,
The Walker Brothers,
Procol Harum,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Foxx,
Pierre Henry,
Young Marble Giants,
Sällskapet,
R.M.O.,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sonic Youth,
Deakin,
Rotary Connection,
Amon Düül,
Soul II Soul,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.