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 Costa Rica and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare 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 Fugs to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Outsiders,
The Young Rascals,
The Misunderstood,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
R.M.O.,
Circle Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Dennis Brown,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Walker Brothers,
the Bar-Kays,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Angry Samoans,
Slick Rick,
Warsaw,
Rapeman,
Tommy Roe,
Kaleidoscope,
the Slits,
Dave Gahan,
Panda Bear,
Eden Ahbez,
Swell Maps,
Maurizio,
Sparks,
Main Source,
Magma,
This Heat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pantytec,
The Cure,
Black Bananas,
Roy Ayers,
The Fire Engines,
The Slits,
Los Fastidios,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Theoretical Girls,
Rufus Thomas,
Ituana,
Joyce Sims,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Boz Scaggs,
Schoolly D,
F. McDonald,
Talk Talk,
Todd Rundgren,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dead Boys,
Sun Ra,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
The Searchers,
Gichy Dan,
The Smoke,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Janne Schatter,
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The Raincoats,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.