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 Zimbabwe and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 New York and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 David Bowie 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 Black Flag to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Country Teasers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
Dennis Brown,
Leonard Cohen,
the Human League,
Morten Harket,
The Busters,
Black Moon,
The Stooges,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Monks,
The Doors,
Rosa Yemen,
Roxette,
The Wake,
The Moleskins,
Black Sheep,
Camouflage,
The Cure,
Maleditus Sound,
Skriet,
Deepchord,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Severed Heads,
The Five Americans,
Amon Düül,
Rhythm & Sound,
Clear Light,
Chrome,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gang Starr,
Motorama,
Yazoo,
Sun City Girls,
Procol Harum,
Hashim,
Lindisfarne,
Khruangbin,
Joensuu 1685,
10cc,
The Fortunes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Womack,
David Axelrod,
Thee Headcoats,
Lou Reed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Evens,
Cal Tjader,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter and Kerry,
kango's stein massive,
Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
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.