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 Venezuela and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 synthesizer 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 Prince Buster to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
The Toasters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
F. McDonald,
Funky Four + One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lungfish,
Colin Newman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eurythmics,
The Fuzztones,
Skarface,
kango's stein massive,
Silicon Teens,
Symarip,
Swans,
Eric Dolphy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pierre Henry,
Gang Starr,
Main Source,
UT,
Pharoah Sanders,
Susan Cadogan,
Junior Murvin,
Delon & Dalcan,
Aaron Thompson,
Quadrant,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gories,
The Walker Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
The J.B.'s,
FM Einheit,
Eden Ahbez,
Cecil Taylor,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Crispy Ambulance,
Accadde A,
10cc,
Faust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Seeds,
Bang On A Can,
Magazine,
Minnie Riperton,
Barry Ungar,
Maurizio,
Idris Muhammad,
Dennis Brown,
Kaleidoscope,
The Birthday Party,
Shoche,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Gun Club,
Barbara Tucker,
Fluxion,
Franke,
Lyres,
Simply Red,
Lou Christie,
Altered Images,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.