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 Laos and from Salvador.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fall to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Mantronix,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Au Pairs,
Eric Dolphy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Todd Rundgren,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alice Coltrane,
Malaria!,
Agitation Free,
Mars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Buzzcocks,
Angry Samoans,
Cecil Taylor,
China Crisis,
Blancmange,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Whodini,
The Seeds,
Faust,
Vladislav Delay,
Judy Mowatt,
Juan Atkins,
Rufus Thomas,
Big Daddy Kane,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
In Retrospect,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grauzone,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wire,
Monolake,
Joy Division,
Gang Green,
Barrington Levy,
Radiohead,
Nas,
Loose Ends,
Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fear,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rekid,
Bronski Beat,
Peter & Gordon,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Leaves,
John Cale,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mandrill,
Jerry's Kids,
The Count Five,
Subhumans,
Ronan,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.