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 Serbia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Subhumans,
Boz Scaggs,
Echospace,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Zeros,
Chris Corsano,
Motorama,
New York Dolls,
Niagra,
Neil Young,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Porter Ricks,
Main Source,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bad Manners,
Neu!,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Duran Duran,
Cybotron,
Essential Logic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Danielle Patucci,
Johnny Clarke,
The Fuzztones,
Frankie Knuckles,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Trojans,
Royal Trux,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marshall Jefferson,
Adolescents,
Skarface,
AZ,
Jandek,
The Wake,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nico,
Albert Ayler,
JFA,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Banda Bassotti,
These Immortal Souls,
Black Bananas,
the Human League,
Ludus,
Fatback Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Ituana,
The Blackbyrds,
Man Parrish,
Basic Channel,
The Saints,
Oneida,
Icehouse,
Mantronix,
Desert Stars,
Mr. Review,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.