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 United States and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the marimba 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Leaves,
Sällskapet,
Supertramp,
Babytalk,
Scion,
This Heat,
Amazonics,
Bluetip,
Quantec,
K-Klass,
Roger Hodgson,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Moss Icon,
Bad Manners,
The Zeros,
Stockholm Monsters,
ABBA,
Minutemen,
KRS-One,
the Soft Cell,
Essential Logic,
Don Cherry,
Subhumans,
Eden Ahbez,
Quando Quango,
The Gladiators,
Basic Channel,
Faraquet,
Derrick May,
Harry Pussy,
Junior Murvin,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
Delta 5,
The Move,
Sparks,
Brand Nubian,
China Crisis,
the Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Neil Young,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Music Machine,
Surgeon,
Josef K,
OOIOO,
Wally Richardson,
Leonard Cohen,
The Knickerbockers,
The Trojans,
The Busters,
Joe Finger,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gastr Del Sol,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pantytec,
Bill Wells,
Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Moe Dee.
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.