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 Belarus and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Rufus Thomas to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All L. Decosne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Matthew Bourne,
The Raincoats,
Scrapy,
The Skatalites,
the Slits,
Traffic Nightmare,
Steve Hackett,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jawbox,
JFA,
China Crisis,
Nils Olav,
Tomorrow,
Infiniti,
Panda Bear,
Sugar Minott,
The Grass Roots,
Sexual Harrassment,
Animal Collective,
Index,
Dark Day,
Junior Murvin,
Desert Stars,
Siglo XX,
Marmalade,
Guru Guru,
Robert Görl,
Patti Smith,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tears for Fears,
Nik Kershaw,
the Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young,
Peter & Gordon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Normal,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crash Course in Science,
X-102,
Sonic Youth,
Skarface,
John Foxx,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Association,
In Retrospect,
Mad Mike,
Y Pants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Toni Rubio,
Yusef Lateef,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Real Kids,
Pole,
The Stooges,
Fatback Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Absolute Body Control,
Barrington Levy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.