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 Sierra Leone and from Glasgow.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 cv313 to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Jesper Dahlback,
Procol Harum,
Moss Icon,
Albert Ayler,
UT,
Lakeside,
Skaos,
The Fortunes,
Trumans Water,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magazine,
Lindisfarne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chrome,
Iggy Pop,
Angry Samoans,
Sällskapet,
The Walker Brothers,
Japan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fatback Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Slackers,
Aloha Tigers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joy Division,
Flamin' Groovies,
Surgeon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sex Pistols,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Buzzcocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Khruangbin,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Gang Starr,
The Techniques,
Outsiders,
The Dead C,
Cymande,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Essential Logic,
Audionom,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
The Gories,
Gong,
Dark Day,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Reuben Wilson,
Sight & Sound,
Pussy Galore,
Danielle Patucci,
Mr. Review,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.