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 Latvia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
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 spring reverb 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Gregory Isaacs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Franke,
Lyres,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Skriet,
Yazoo,
The Doors,
Boogie Down Productions,
Au Pairs,
Pulsallama,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gun Club,
Thee Headcoats,
Ultravox,
The Seeds,
The Electric Prunes,
Mantronix,
Sällskapet,
Jeru the Damaja,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
The Offenders,
Arcadia,
The Shadows of Knight,
Marc Almond,
The Martian,
Royal Trux,
Fugazi,
Robert Görl,
Godley & Creme,
Rod Modell,
Reuben Wilson,
Make Up,
Underground Resistance,
Ludus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
K-Klass,
Peter & Gordon,
A Certain Ratio,
Roy Ayers,
Duran Duran,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Joensuu 1685,
Audionom,
Altered Images,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Darondo,
The Motions,
Jawbox,
The Last Poets,
Kevin Saunderson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Pus,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
10cc,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.