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 Fiji and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 Cairo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Agitation Free to the rap 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 Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Animal Collective,
KRS-One,
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Lalann,
D'Angelo,
Rotary Connection,
The Remains,
DJ Sneak,
Dave Gahan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Colin Newman,
Faraquet,
Iggy Pop,
Kayak,
Juan Atkins,
ABC,
Sight & Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Sex Pistols,
Gabor Szabo,
Reagan Youth,
Drexciya,
Spoonie Gee,
Boz Scaggs,
Radiopuhelimet,
cv313,
Gong,
The Leaves,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gang of Four,
The Martian,
Roxette,
Nils Olav,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Duran Duran,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Five Americans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Happenings,
China Crisis,
Los Fastidios,
The Human League,
MDC,
Agent Orange,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Buzzcocks,
Eurythmics,
Tim Buckley,
Erykah Badu,
Crispian St. Peters,
Black Flag,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.