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 Slovenia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
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 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 Inner City to the grime 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Fat Boys,
10cc,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Vladislav Delay,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ohio Players,
Flash Fearless,
Quando Quango,
EPMD,
Terry Callier,
H. Thieme,
Connie Case,
The Invisible,
The Human League,
Interpol,
Kurtis Blow,
Cybotron,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Big Daddy Kane,
Erasure,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Derrick Morgan,
Camberwell Now,
the Slits,
Kaleidoscope,
Barry Ungar,
Make Up,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Adolescents,
A Certain Ratio,
Vainqueur,
Marvin Gaye,
Deakin,
Porter Ricks,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Doors,
Cheater Slicks,
Steve Hackett,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Faust,
Lightning Bolt,
The Wake,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pierre Henry,
Goldenarms,
Cymande,
Man Eating Sloth,
Judy Mowatt,
ABBA,
Gong,
Minutemen,
Bob Dylan,
The Moleskins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.