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 Somalia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Milan.
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 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 David Bowie 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 The Monochrome Set to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
Hashim,
Technova,
Television Personalities,
Essential Logic,
Vainqueur,
Eric Copeland,
Todd Rundgren,
The American Breed,
Joyce Sims,
Man Parrish,
The Stooges,
Don Cherry,
Fela Kuti,
Johnny Osbourne,
Unwound,
Babytalk,
The Remains,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jacques Brel,
Nils Olav,
Black Pus,
Kayak,
Pole,
Sly & The Family Stone,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed,
The Toasters,
Thompson Twins,
Nick Fraelich,
Erasure,
Stereo Dub,
The Leaves,
Hasil Adkins,
Slave,
Drexciya,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Shadows of Knight,
Television,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
UT,
Carl Craig,
Cameo,
Laurel Aitken,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ludus,
The Star Department,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
Stiv Bators,
Tommy Roe,
Eric Dolphy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.