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 Tuvalu and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 oboe 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 Janne Schatter to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 MDC. All the underground hits.
All Sly & The Family Stone tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
This Heat,
Mission of Burma,
the Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
Lightning Bolt,
Ponytail,
Ronan,
Quantec,
Technova,
Symarip,
The Stooges,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Todd Rundgren,
Bill Near,
Man Parrish,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Sound,
Accadde A,
Joe Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Cameo,
The Motions,
Max Romeo,
Essential Logic,
Gang Starr,
Nik Kershaw,
E-Dancer,
The Cure,
T. Rex,
The Trojans,
8 Eyed Spy,
Thompson Twins,
Wasted Youth,
Crime,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Beau Brummels,
Bluetip,
Amazonics,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Mojo Men,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bauhaus,
Lower 48,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Michelle Simonal,
D'Angelo,
Livin' Joy,
Hashim,
Heaven 17,
The Gladiators,
Index,
Spoonie Gee,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cecil Taylor,
The J.B.'s,
Television,
Fela Kuti,
Juan Atkins,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.