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 United Kingdom and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Scion to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '50s 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 The Knickerbockers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Shoche,
Mad Mike,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lightning Bolt,
Arcadia,
Kerri Chandler,
Altered Images,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Amon Düül II,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Smiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Yellowson,
Chrome,
the Association,
Lalann,
The Buckinghams,
Soul II Soul,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ohio Players,
Aaron Thompson,
Agent Orange,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Siglo XX,
Oneida,
Joey Negro,
Pussy Galore,
Minor Threat,
The Gladiators,
Juan Atkins,
Rapeman,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Faust,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Drexciya,
Scion,
Bill Wells,
Silicon Teens,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Throbbing Gristle,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang Green,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
The Walker Brothers,
Aswad,
Mr. Review,
Bootsy Collins,
Maurizio,
The Zeros,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pylon,
Robert Hood,
Theoretical Girls,
The Searchers,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.