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 Latvia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 clarinet 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 Pantaleimon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Khruangbin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
The Busters,
Television Personalities,
Dual Sessions,
Sound Behaviour,
Bluetip,
Unrelated Segments,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
One Last Wish,
Derrick Morgan,
The Blues Magoos,
UT,
Amon Düül,
Ossler,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Eden Ahbez,
FM Einheit,
Minor Threat,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Residents,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eric Copeland,
Roy Ayers,
Blake Baxter,
James White and The Blacks,
Sonic Youth,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bang On A Can,
Alton Ellis,
Janne Schatter,
Scientists,
Pantaleimon,
The Leaves,
Metal Thangz,
Todd Rundgren,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Slackers,
Robert Görl,
Alphaville,
Andrew Hill,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
L. Decosne,
The Black Dice,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Crime,
Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
The Move,
The Detroit Cobras,
Soft Machine,
Ice-T,
John Foxx,
Stiv Bators,
Cymande,
Bobby Sherman,
Kenny Larkin,
The Invisible,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.