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 Macedonia and from Taipei.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare 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 The Raincoats to the electroclash 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Jandek,
LL Cool J,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Depeche Mode,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bang On A Can,
Theoretical Girls,
Arcadia,
Robert Wyatt,
Black Sheep,
Slick Rick,
The Mummies,
Interpol,
X-Ray Spex,
Suicide,
The Modern Lovers,
The Kinks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Vainqueur,
Section 25,
Todd Terry,
Lyres,
Pantytec,
Funkadelic,
Robert Hood,
Country Teasers,
Animal Collective,
The Flesh Eaters,
DJ Sneak,
Unrelated Segments,
The Moleskins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Red Krayola,
The Wake,
Moss Icon,
The Grass Roots,
Quando Quango,
Cybotron,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jeff Lynne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Faraquet,
The Associates,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Rhythm & Sound,
Brick,
The Move,
ABC,
Skriet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tomorrow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Scott Walker,
Spandau Ballet,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.