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 Colombia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ultimate Spinach to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doobie Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Donny Hathaway,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jacob Miller,
X-Ray Spex,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Motorama,
Pantytec,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fugs,
The Residents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lungfish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Siglo XX,
Peter and Kerry,
Lalann,
The Blues Magoos,
Crooked Eye,
Marine Girls,
Swell Maps,
Sugar Minott,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skriet,
Depeche Mode,
Fifty Foot Hose,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ituana,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jimmy McGriff,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
This Heat,
Desert Stars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Porter Ricks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Metal Thangz,
Piero Umiliani,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bob Dylan,
Surgeon,
Trumans Water,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eric Copeland,
The Techniques,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hardrive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Blake Baxter,
Todd Rundgren,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stiv Bators,
Model 500,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Letta Mbulu,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.