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 Mozambique and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 oboe 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 New York Dolls 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Cramps,
Reuben Wilson,
Bang On A Can,
MDC,
Marc Almond,
Sight & Sound,
MC5,
Morten Harket,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cal Tjader,
Roxy Music,
Fear,
The Searchers,
Donald Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Mad Mike,
Electric Prunes,
Quantec,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Slackers,
Barrington Levy,
The Stooges,
Archie Shepp,
Charles Mingus,
Jacob Miller,
The Litter,
The Golliwogs,
JFA,
Sister Nancy,
Matthew Halsall,
ABBA,
Roy Ayers,
Supertramp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Womack,
OOIOO,
Mark Hollis,
Howard Jones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rites of Spring,
Section 25,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
New Order,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
The Gap Band,
The Residents,
Sixth Finger,
The Divine Comedy,
Pole,
Deakin,
Audionom,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.