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 Latvia and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Brand Nubian,
Bill Wells,
Khruangbin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Thompson Twins,
The Knickerbockers,
Arab on Radar,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bad Manners,
Josef K,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slave,
Minnie Riperton,
The Fuzztones,
Blossom Toes,
The Kinks,
The Red Krayola,
Mission of Burma,
Todd Rundgren,
Rakim,
The Sound,
Peter & Gordon,
Easy Going,
Dual Sessions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Gun Club,
Flamin' Groovies,
Archie Shepp,
Unwound,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Avey Tare,
Eurythmics,
Rosa Yemen,
Fad Gadget,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Henry Cow,
K-Klass,
Bauhaus,
Bootsy Collins,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Zapp,
The Beau Brummels,
Sex Pistols,
Masters at Work,
The Raincoats,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Los Fastidios,
Ornette Coleman,
Kas Product,
Gang Gang Dance,
Amon Düül,
John Holt,
The Invisible,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Pop Group,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.