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 Australia and from Stockholm.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Adolescents to the funk 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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jandek,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ituana,
The Skatalites,
Colin Newman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Heaven 17,
Vladislav Delay,
Todd Rundgren,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Green,
Simply Red,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Angry Samoans,
Minny Pops,
Pere Ubu,
Reagan Youth,
Fatback Band,
David Axelrod,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lyres,
Surgeon,
The Seeds,
Sixth Finger,
The Remains,
The Smoke,
Bill Wells,
Ornette Coleman,
Nik Kershaw,
Joensuu 1685,
Oneida,
Monks,
Andrew Hill,
The Move,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lightning Bolt,
Marvin Gaye,
Harry Pussy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
EPMD,
Unrelated Segments,
Interpol,
Soul Sonic Force,
Absolute Body Control,
Index,
Kerri Chandler,
The Barracudas,
Shoche,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Last Poets,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dennis Brown,
Mantronix,
Hardrive,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.