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 Congo and from Milan.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Blake Baxter to the rock 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
John Holt,
Eyeless In Gaza,
June Days,
The Gories,
Barry Ungar,
Grauzone,
Brick,
Nico,
The United States of America,
Jawbox,
Tears for Fears,
Radiopuhelimet,
Electric Prunes,
Au Pairs,
Charles Mingus,
Zero Boys,
Section 25,
L. Decosne,
Kayak,
Chris & Cosey,
Public Image Ltd.,
Black Bananas,
The Blackbyrds,
Scrapy,
The Fuzztones,
La Düsseldorf,
B.T. Express,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scan 7,
Lightning Bolt,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ten City,
Mars,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
Negative Approach,
Crash Course in Science,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Toasters,
ABBA,
Swell Maps,
the Soft Cell,
Supertramp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül II,
David Axelrod,
Swans,
Unrelated Segments,
Jeff Mills,
Eli Mardock,
Pussy Galore,
ABC,
Lungfish,
Slave,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Scratch Acid,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
China Crisis,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.