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 Bahamas and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Eric Copeland to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marc Almond,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lower 48,
Lindisfarne,
Chris Corsano,
The Mighty Diamonds,
FM Einheit,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scion,
Swans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crash Course in Science,
Half Japanese,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ice-T,
The Detroit Cobras,
Magazine,
Joe Smooth,
The Busters,
The Seeds,
Parry Music,
The Sonics,
Roy Ayers,
AZ,
Grauzone,
In Retrospect,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lightning Bolt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rekid,
Black Pus,
Echospace,
Thee Headcoats,
Sly & The Family Stone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dirtbombs,
Kenny Larkin,
MC5,
The Star Department,
The United States of America,
Dark Day,
Supertramp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Grass Roots,
Laurel Aitken,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Accadde A,
Anakelly,
Davy DMX,
Marshall Jefferson,
Radio Birdman,
Tropical Tobacco,
The J.B.'s,
Neu!,
Erasure,
Model 500,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.