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 Peru and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Panda Bear to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Faraquet,
Carl Craig,
The Blackbyrds,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barclay James Harvest,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sandy B,
Blancmange,
Television Personalities,
Gichy Dan,
Chrome,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
Magma,
Connie Case,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Five Americans,
Erykah Badu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The J.B.'s,
Davy DMX,
Scion,
Sight & Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Soul II Soul,
The Doors,
Donald Byrd,
The Gap Band,
Josef K,
the Swans,
JFA,
Can,
Cal Tjader,
Babytalk,
Arcadia,
The Monks,
Prince Buster,
Nirvana,
Little Man,
The Red Krayola,
Minny Pops,
The Blues Magoos,
The New Christs,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick May,
Barbara Tucker,
Deepchord,
The Dirtbombs,
Fad Gadget,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Motorama,
Funkadelic,
The Smiths,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.