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 Argentina and from Salvador.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Cameo to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bluetip,
Theoretical Girls,
Q and Not U,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Young Marble Giants,
Nas,
Lower 48,
The Monks,
The Divine Comedy,
The Red Krayola,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
Crooked Eye,
Idris Muhammad,
Patti Smith,
Make Up,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brass Construction,
The Mummies,
Stockholm Monsters,
China Crisis,
Silicon Teens,
Can,
The Black Dice,
the Germs,
Negative Approach,
Dave Gahan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Happenings,
John Foxx,
Franke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Slits,
DJ Style,
Roxy Music,
The Velvet Underground,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wasted Youth,
Marc Almond,
Fat Boys,
Swell Maps,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Blancmange,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Shadows of Knight,
Hasil Adkins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Cosmic Jokers,
a-ha,
EPMD,
the Sonics,
Jerry's Kids,
Kerri Chandler,
Zapp,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.