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 Guyana and from Bremen.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Mo-Dettes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All Ice-T tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
Quantec,
Scratch Acid,
These Immortal Souls,
Bobby Byrd,
Kerri Chandler,
Little Man,
The Beau Brummels,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vladislav Delay,
Magma,
World's Most,
The Dead C,
Electric Light Orchestra,
K-Klass,
Section 25,
Joensuu 1685,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Blossom Toes,
Minnie Riperton,
Bauhaus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Thompson Twins,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Drive Like Jehu,
China Crisis,
The J.B.'s,
Franke,
The Misunderstood,
FM Einheit,
Pantytec,
Nico,
Black Moon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Yazoo,
Agitation Free,
The Litter,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Groovy Waters,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fatback Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Fluxion,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Deadbeat,
Letta Mbulu,
Gichy Dan,
Rhythm & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
Massinfluence,
D'Angelo,
Derrick May,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cramps,
Fear,
The Residents,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.