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 Korea North and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the rap 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-101,
The Mummies,
UT,
Scratch Acid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joey Negro,
Basic Channel,
Q65,
The Moleskins,
The American Breed,
Roger Hodgson,
Rotary Connection,
Kas Product,
James White and The Blacks,
The Litter,
Sound Behaviour,
Kerrie Biddell,
Duran Duran,
Dawn Penn,
Rites of Spring,
Marvin Gaye,
Excepter,
Glenn Branca,
The Music Machine,
Hot Snakes,
L. Decosne,
Grauzone,
The Buckinghams,
Hardrive,
Tim Buckley,
Avey Tare,
Michelle Simonal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Robert Görl,
Zero Boys,
Curtis Mayfield,
Little Man,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül II,
China Crisis,
Model 500,
F. McDonald,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Man Parrish,
Scion,
Toni Rubio,
Lindisfarne,
Marine Girls,
Magazine,
Henry Cow,
Gong,
Harpers Bizarre,
Patti Smith,
Fad Gadget,
World's Most,
The Kinks,
R.M.O.,
Maleditus Sound,
Laurel Aitken,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.