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 Netherlands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Holger Czukay 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 the Sonics to the jazz 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 the Swans. All the underground hits.
All Cameo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Deepchord,
Skarface,
Basic Channel,
The Durutti Column,
The Barracudas,
Unwound,
Gabor Szabo,
Marine Girls,
Tom Boy,
Neil Young,
Bizarre Inc.,
Television Personalities,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ossler,
The New Christs,
Joy Division,
Robert Wyatt,
Can,
Youth Brigade,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Surgeon,
Colin Newman,
D'Angelo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Radiohead,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kaleidoscope,
The Five Americans,
Carl Craig,
Eddi Front,
The Knickerbockers,
Freddie Wadling,
Von Mondo,
Connie Case,
Prince Buster,
Marmalade,
Second Layer,
Hasil Adkins,
The Last Poets,
Traffic Nightmare,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harpers Bizarre,
Frankie Knuckles,
Aaron Thompson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Matthew Halsall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Peter and Kerry,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Terry,
Dorothy Ashby,
Oneida,
Fluxion,
kango's stein massive,
Amazonics,
Desert Stars,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.