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 Georgia and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro 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 Eden Ahbez to the jazz 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Talk Talk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Nas,
Technova,
MC5,
Barry Ungar,
James White and The Blacks,
Mantronix,
Underground Resistance,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eli Mardock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Organ,
the Soft Cell,
Colin Newman,
X-102,
Henry Cow,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Danielle Patucci,
Dennis Brown,
Outsiders,
Andrew Hill,
Shoche,
Lungfish,
Blake Baxter,
Siglo XX,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minny Pops,
Sällskapet,
Peter and Kerry,
Royal Trux,
New York Dolls,
Soft Machine,
Unrelated Segments,
Con Funk Shun,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun City Girls,
Scan 7,
Cluster,
Amazonics,
The Gun Club,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cowsills,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lyres,
Eve St. Jones,
Tubeway Army,
The Black Dice,
Terry Callier,
Sound Behaviour,
Laurel Aitken,
Goldenarms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Zapp,
David McCallum,
Interpol,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grauzone,
Scott Walker,
Stockholm Monsters,
Index, Index, Index, Index.
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.