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 Gambia and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Fear to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin 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 snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Can,
The Moody Blues,
In Retrospect,
Ronan,
Tubeway Army,
Pussy Galore,
Ohio Players,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
UT,
Rakim,
EPMD,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stereo Dub,
The Birthday Party,
James White and The Blacks,
Brick,
the Fania All-Stars,
Second Layer,
Trumans Water,
Tim Buckley,
Anakelly,
Alison Limerick,
Jerry's Kids,
Quadrant,
World's Most,
Visage,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bauhaus,
The Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yazoo,
The Golliwogs,
The Selecter,
The Fortunes,
Section 25,
Blake Baxter,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pole,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arthur Verocai,
Angry Samoans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nils Olav,
Chris Corsano,
Man Eating Sloth,
Groovy Waters,
Joy Division,
The Evens,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young,
Magazine,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.