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 Monaco and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Ituana to the grunge 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sonics,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Darondo,
Blake Baxter,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Model 500,
Public Enemy,
Royal Trux,
Young Marble Giants,
The Real Kids,
Jacques Brel,
Warren Ellis,
Von Mondo,
Minutemen,
David McCallum,
Make Up,
The Pretty Things,
Joey Negro,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
T.S.O.L.,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Neon Judgement,
The Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
kango's stein massive,
Archie Shepp,
Barbara Tucker,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mars,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Searchers,
Traffic Nightmare,
Al Stewart,
Marine Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Maleditus Sound,
Lucky Dragons,
The Moody Blues,
Patti Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gladiators,
E-Dancer,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moleskins,
Bluetip,
Stockholm Monsters,
In Retrospect,
Skriet,
X-101,
Soul Sonic Force,
Con Funk Shun,
U.S. Maple,
Amon Düül II,
Ten City,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.