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 Vietnam and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Seoul.
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 808 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 Junior Murvin to the rock 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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Althea and Donna,
Lalann,
Depeche Mode,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Terrestrial Tones,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Model 500,
The Selecter,
Albert Ayler,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-101,
In Retrospect,
Crime,
Q and Not U,
Television,
Archie Shepp,
The Black Dice,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lungfish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
ABBA,
Underground Resistance,
James White and The Blacks,
10cc,
Terry Callier,
Glambeats Corp.,
Panda Bear,
Sight & Sound,
Eric B and Rakim,
David Bowie,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funky Four + One,
The Human League,
Angry Samoans,
D'Angelo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Avey Tare,
Grey Daturas,
Second Layer,
The Fugs,
Scion,
Pulsallama,
Accadde A,
Moebius,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Eurythmics,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deepchord,
Anakelly,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Alarm Clocks,
Saccharine Trust,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.