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 Brunei and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 rhodes 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 Liliput to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Louis and Bebe Barron. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
D'Angelo,
Quando Quango,
Tubeway Army,
Jandek,
Blossom Toes,
Kaleidoscope,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Hill,
John Cale,
The Smoke,
Television Personalities,
Radiohead,
Skaos,
Robert Wyatt,
The United States of America,
Tommy Roe,
The Victims,
The Busters,
Parry Music,
Todd Rundgren,
Negative Approach,
Godley & Creme,
Ice-T,
Hardrive,
The Remains,
Theoretical Girls,
Ornette Coleman,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Subhumans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Warsaw,
Groovy Waters,
The Litter,
X-101,
10cc,
Neu!,
Surgeon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Japan,
New York Dolls,
Alice Coltrane,
June Days,
Talk Talk,
the Bar-Kays,
Joey Negro,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Laurel Aitken,
Kurtis Blow,
Lyres,
DJ Style,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kool Moe Dee,
Zapp,
T.S.O.L.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sam Rivers,
Peter and Kerry,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.