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 Uganda and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 The Black Dice to the grunge 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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Thee Headcoats,
DJ Sneak,
Wolf Eyes,
Juan Atkins,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
MDC,
Gabor Szabo,
Blake Baxter,
Joy Division,
Pantytec,
The Mummies,
James White and The Blacks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brothers Johnson,
Joyce Sims,
The Blackbyrds,
Absolute Body Control,
Faraquet,
World's Most,
Reagan Youth,
Janne Schatter,
This Heat,
Leonard Cohen,
Duran Duran,
The Monochrome Set,
Monks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Neil Young,
Niagra,
Robert Wyatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smiths,
Main Source,
Marmalade,
A Certain Ratio,
Radio Birdman,
Lou Reed,
Bush Tetras,
Arthur Verocai,
Scientists,
Liliput,
Wally Richardson,
Minor Threat,
Royal Trux,
Ralphi Rosario,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott Heron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Franke,
The Monks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Swans,
Bluetip,
Skriet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sugar Minott,
Barrington Levy,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.