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 Jordan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cosmic Jokers,
U.S. Maple,
Youth Brigade,
Anthony Braxton,
Bluetip,
Isaac Hayes,
Dave Gahan,
Quadrant,
JFA,
Tim Buckley,
Eddi Front,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deakin,
Radio Birdman,
Rosa Yemen,
The Vogues,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Gun Club,
Eric Copeland,
Bush Tetras,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
One Last Wish,
MDC,
Chris Corsano,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Jerry's Kids,
World's Most,
Moebius,
Gang Starr,
The Cowsills,
Outsiders,
Jacques Brel,
Boredoms,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Circle Jerks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Selecter,
Soft Cell,
Sonic Youth,
Crooked Eye,
the Germs,
Black Moon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gichy Dan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cameo,
Sixth Finger,
Kenny Larkin,
Flipper,
Suicide,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Blackbyrds,
Matthew Bourne,
Alison Limerick,
Intrusion,
Aloha Tigers,
John Coltrane,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.