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 Solomon Islands and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ 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 Skriet to the funk 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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Howard Jones,
Roxy Music,
Pole,
Wasted Youth,
KRS-One,
DJ Sneak,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Massinfluence,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Talk Talk,
The Detroit Cobras,
Siglo XX,
Livin' Joy,
The Five Americans,
Terry Callier,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric Dolphy,
Young Marble Giants,
Godley & Creme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Colin Newman,
Babytalk,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultra Naté,
John Foxx,
Heaven 17,
Aloha Tigers,
Quando Quango,
Archie Shepp,
Bill Near,
Severed Heads,
The Gladiators,
Amon Düül II,
Sparks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ponytail,
Slave,
Banda Bassotti,
Swans,
Neil Young,
Procol Harum,
Sugar Minott,
Grey Daturas,
Desert Stars,
The Searchers,
The Leaves,
The Busters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Danielle Patucci,
The Motions,
The Kinks,
The Techniques,
Suicide,
Depeche Mode,
Marvin Gaye,
48th St. Collective,
Eurythmics,
Soul II Soul,
The Moleskins,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.