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 Angola and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bluetip 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
CMW,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gang Starr,
The New Christs,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
X-101,
Public Image Ltd.,
Warsaw,
Roxy Music,
Mary Jane Girls,
Henry Cow,
The Cowsills,
Sun Ra,
The Evens,
Average White Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Hot Snakes,
Peter and Kerry,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Martian,
Quantec,
New Order,
Funky Four + One,
Dawn Penn,
Barrington Levy,
Grey Daturas,
Ohio Players,
Excepter,
JFA,
Make Up,
Tom Boy,
Lindisfarne,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lalann,
Newcleus,
Pulsallama,
Derrick May,
John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
Skriet,
Joey Negro,
Ronan,
Yusef Lateef,
The Detroit Cobras,
Shuggie Otis,
Rod Modell,
Cybotron,
Man Eating Sloth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crash Course in Science,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pretty Things,
Yaz,
Wire,
Maurizio,
Panda Bear,
Pylon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Loose Ends,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.