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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Cairo.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lou Christie to the rock 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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABC,
The Doors,
The Last Poets,
Cecil Taylor,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Throbbing Gristle,
Audionom,
The Busters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lakeside,
Minutemen,
Kerri Chandler,
Wire,
Cal Tjader,
The Vogues,
The Fortunes,
Boz Scaggs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeff Lynne,
Max Romeo,
Icehouse,
Intrusion,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Supertramp,
Suburban Knight,
Skarface,
Easy Going,
UT,
Bobby Sherman,
Accadde A,
The Victims,
Reagan Youth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deadbeat,
Adolescents,
Eric Copeland,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sonics,
Ice-T,
Lucky Dragons,
Rod Modell,
Soul II Soul,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camouflage,
Steve Hackett,
Joensuu 1685,
The Neon Judgement,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Alton Ellis,
Whodini,
Zero Boys,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
KRS-One,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.