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 Ethiopia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 spring reverb 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 DNA to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Royal Trux,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Evens,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Real Kids,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Don Cherry,
Television,
Pylon,
Wire,
Pantytec,
R.M.O.,
Country Teasers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Human League,
U.S. Maple,
One Last Wish,
Technova,
The Remains,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Searchers,
Boz Scaggs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Hasil Adkins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Excepter,
Section 25,
Kerrie Biddell,
Reagan Youth,
AZ,
The Slits,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The American Breed,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Offenders,
The Smiths,
Bobby Womack,
Joyce Sims,
The Electric Prunes,
Slave,
Alton Ellis,
Tommy Roe,
Pharoah Sanders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sound Behaviour,
Au Pairs,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Index,
Leonard Cohen,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Morten Harket,
The Names,
Quadrant,
Anthony Braxton,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Television Personalities,
Minnie Riperton,
the Sonics,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minor Threat,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.