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 Costa Rica and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 The Happenings to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
The Count Five,
Negative Approach,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Outsiders,
The Five Americans,
Roxy Music,
Flipper,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Nas,
Make Up,
Adolescents,
The Cramps,
The Monks,
The Offenders,
Livin' Joy,
Soft Machine,
Von Mondo,
Bobby Womack,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eve St. Jones,
Echospace,
Robert Hood,
The Mummies,
Pole,
Gang Green,
China Crisis,
The Move,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Big Daddy Kane,
Hot Snakes,
The Tremeloes,
F. McDonald,
Deakin,
Lindisfarne,
The Gun Club,
U.S. Maple,
Main Source,
The Evens,
Davy DMX,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
Howard Jones,
June Days,
The Gories,
Rotary Connection,
The Moleskins,
The Angels of Light,
Subhumans,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal,
Colin Newman,
Gastr Del Sol,
Spandau Ballet,
Duran Duran,
New York Dolls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
B.T. Express,
Siglo XX,
Eddi Front,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.