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 Mali and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Mandrill to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Amon Düül,
Gregory Isaacs,
Maurizio,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Searchers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ronan,
Monolake,
Barrington Levy,
Boredoms,
Scratch Acid,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ponytail,
Sex Pistols,
Eric Dolphy,
Basic Channel,
Kool Moe Dee,
the Human League,
Davy DMX,
Easy Going,
Rapeman,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Swans,
Depeche Mode,
Terrestrial Tones,
48th St. Collective,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
LL Cool J,
Niagra,
John Lydon,
Echospace,
Reuben Wilson,
The Black Dice,
Model 500,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wally Richardson,
Radiohead,
Moby Grape,
Pulsallama,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
Nirvana,
The Golliwogs,
Accadde A,
Sugar Minott,
Dead Boys,
In Retrospect,
Urselle,
The Standells,
Ituana,
Gang Starr,
AZ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gastr Del Sol,
Brand Nubian,
Brass Construction,
Shuggie Otis,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.