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 Italy and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Black Dice to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Smiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Symarip,
Albert Ayler,
Jandek,
Grandmaster Flash,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Letta Mbulu,
The Stooges,
Von Mondo,
The Angels of Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Mars,
Maleditus Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fire Engines,
LL Cool J,
Fatback Band,
Joyce Sims,
Boz Scaggs,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gang Green,
Soulsonic Force,
Niagra,
The Techniques,
Nick Fraelich,
Oneida,
H. Thieme,
Radiopuhelimet,
Banda Bassotti,
The Wake,
Royal Trux,
Todd Rundgren,
Moss Icon,
Theoretical Girls,
Max Romeo,
Morten Harket,
Flipper,
Pulsallama,
Idris Muhammad,
Lyres,
Sex Pistols,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
cv313,
Pierre Henry,
Gabor Szabo,
Junior Murvin,
Chris Corsano,
The Velvet Underground,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Avey Tare,
Brand Nubian,
Lower 48,
Negative Approach,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.