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 Kuwait and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mexico City.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Talk Talk to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba 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 Leaves,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Tremeloes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Beau Brummels,
The Monochrome Set,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Babytalk,
Nick Fraelich,
Tears for Fears,
Freddie Wadling,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Agitation Free,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Music Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rosa Yemen,
a-ha,
Shoche,
Marvin Gaye,
Agent Orange,
The Human League,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
Pussy Galore,
Oblivians,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Khruangbin,
Newcleus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
June Days,
Mo-Dettes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
U.S. Maple,
Howard Jones,
Pole,
Easy Going,
Pierre Henry,
Minutemen,
Kool Moe Dee,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Associates,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Mars,
Ronan,
Hot Snakes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Country Joe & The Fish,
David Bowie,
Jacques Brel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vladislav Delay,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Prince Buster,
Throbbing Gristle,
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Theoretical Girls,
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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.