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 Poland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Robert Palmer 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 Moby Grape to the punk 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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Silicon Teens,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barbara Tucker,
David McCallum,
Von Mondo,
Country Teasers,
Marine Girls,
Neil Young,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Sherman,
Ronnie Foster,
The Angels of Light,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ituana,
Motorama,
Eddi Front,
Unwound,
Mark Hollis,
The Fall,
U.S. Maple,
The Durutti Column,
Tom Boy,
The Fortunes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pet Shop Boys,
Talk Talk,
Yusef Lateef,
The Motions,
The Skatalites,
Marc Almond,
Wally Richardson,
Delon & Dalcan,
MC5,
The American Breed,
Hasil Adkins,
Tomorrow,
Don Cherry,
Fat Boys,
Can,
Deakin,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Avey Tare,
Eric Copeland,
Ossler,
These Immortal Souls,
Altered Images,
Cluster,
Vainqueur,
Inner City,
John Foxx,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Offenders,
Jawbox,
Rapeman,
The Shadows of Knight,
K-Klass,
Sällskapet,
D'Angelo,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.