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 Laos and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the electroclash 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 The Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Roxy Music,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Fugs,
Marmalade,
Juan Atkins,
The New Christs,
Ken Boothe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Wells,
Index,
New Order,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Blossom Toes,
Black Moon,
Mary Jane Girls,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Von Mondo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sällskapet,
Young Marble Giants,
Youth Brigade,
Negative Approach,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
New York Dolls,
Kaleidoscope,
The Standells,
The Offenders,
Minutemen,
Wasted Youth,
UT,
Joe Finger,
Crime,
Skriet,
The United States of America,
The Electric Prunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nils Olav,
Jeff Mills,
The Toasters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kool Moe Dee,
Underground Resistance,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Electric Prunes,
Oblivians,
The Selecter,
Mars,
T. Rex,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
World's Most,
the Soft Cell,
Motorama,
The Fire Engines,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.