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 New Zealand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grunge 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Rundgren record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tubeway Army,
Lightning Bolt,
The Misunderstood,
Erykah Badu,
Terrestrial Tones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minny Pops,
Eric Copeland,
Panda Bear,
Zero Boys,
KRS-One,
OOIOO,
The Monks,
Quando Quango,
Spoonie Gee,
Metal Thangz,
Godley & Creme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rotary Connection,
The Fortunes,
Second Layer,
Ten City,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Japan,
The Sound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Colin Newman,
The Vogues,
Bobby Sherman,
The Fall,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
R.M.O.,
The Fugs,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Depeche Mode,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joensuu 1685,
Main Source,
Vainqueur,
The Electric Prunes,
Wasted Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dennis Brown,
Pagans,
Easy Going,
Minor Threat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Boredoms,
Grandmaster Flash,
Reuben Wilson,
AZ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Standells,
Guru Guru,
Q and Not U,
H. Thieme,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.