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 Cyprus and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Slits to the dance 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
Judy Mowatt,
The J.B.'s,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Associates,
Negative Approach,
The Grass Roots,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vladislav Delay,
Howard Jones,
Barrington Levy,
Ohio Players,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Jandek,
Anthony Braxton,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Blackbyrds,
Lakeside,
The Music Machine,
The Barracudas,
Outsiders,
Yaz,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gong,
The Pretty Things,
Average White Band,
L. Decosne,
The Skatalites,
Laurel Aitken,
Essential Logic,
Kevin Saunderson,
Second Layer,
T.S.O.L.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
48th St. Collective,
Audionom,
Gastr Del Sol,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Popol Vuh,
Youth Brigade,
Saccharine Trust,
Smog,
Zapp,
the Swans,
Tim Buckley,
Simply Red,
Deakin,
Big Daddy Kane,
Danielle Patucci,
Country Teasers,
Todd Terry,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.