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 Hungary and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ 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 Birthday Party to the crunk 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
China Crisis,
Sparks,
Mission of Burma,
Patti Smith,
Slave,
Joy Division,
Lalann,
Funky Four + One,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Wake,
Silicon Teens,
The Divine Comedy,
Pylon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Suicide,
Q65,
Pulsallama,
Man Parrish,
Janne Schatter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Index,
Swell Maps,
Country Teasers,
the Normal,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Eve St. Jones,
Sight & Sound,
Boz Scaggs,
The Real Kids,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sällskapet,
Kaleidoscope,
Kool Moe Dee,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marvin Gaye,
Shuggie Otis,
Neil Young,
New Order,
The Red Krayola,
Motorama,
T.S.O.L.,
Vladislav Delay,
The Durutti Column,
Little Man,
Lightning Bolt,
Siglo XX,
Michelle Simonal,
Symarip,
Chrome,
Andrew Hill,
Godley & Creme,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Moon,
Crooked Eye,
Mantronix,
the Human League,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.