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 Ukraine and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 AZ to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barbara Tucker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
The Fuzztones,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Bush Tetras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sixth Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Busters,
Mr. Review,
Junior Murvin,
The Cramps,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Zero Boys,
Alphaville,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
Bill Near,
Matthew Bourne,
CMW,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pole,
Monolake,
The Blues Magoos,
Sarah Menescal,
Throbbing Gristle,
the Normal,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mo-Dettes,
The Buckinghams,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Absolute Body Control,
Toni Rubio,
Scrapy,
John Lydon,
Radiohead,
F. McDonald,
Echospace,
Ponytail,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
Cluster,
Pere Ubu,
Pantaleimon,
Tom Boy,
10cc,
The Gories,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Arthur Verocai,
Hasil Adkins,
Kas Product,
Rosa Yemen,
Main Source,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.