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 Uganda and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rosa Yemen to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Panda Bear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rekid,
CMW,
Radiohead,
Moss Icon,
Pagans,
the Association,
Y Pants,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Hardrive,
Jeff Lynne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Pretty Things,
Idris Muhammad,
Severed Heads,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed,
Main Source,
Outsiders,
Accadde A,
The Mojo Men,
Albert Ayler,
Ice-T,
Nico,
Dawn Penn,
The Birthday Party,
The Selecter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Steve Hackett,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Moon,
John Foxx,
Television,
Fifty Foot Hose,
A Certain Ratio,
Funky Four + One,
Susan Cadogan,
Tubeway Army,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Names,
Matthew Bourne,
Ponytail,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Kerrie Biddell,
cv313,
Oblivians,
Sound Behaviour,
Moebius,
Leonard Cohen,
Television Personalities,
June of 44,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The J.B.'s,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Tremeloes,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.