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 Papua New Guinea and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet 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 Crash Course in Science to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
K-Klass,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ten City,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Velvet Underground,
Scion,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fire Engines,
Essential Logic,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kas Product,
Lou Christie,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
June Days,
The Neon Judgement,
Ultra Naté,
The Selecter,
T.S.O.L.,
Soft Cell,
Blake Baxter,
Mars,
Wolf Eyes,
Popol Vuh,
Magma,
Davy DMX,
The United States of America,
Minny Pops,
Circle Jerks,
H. Thieme,
The Associates,
Bobby Womack,
Ornette Coleman,
The Offenders,
Piero Umiliani,
Q65,
Ossler,
Danielle Patucci,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deakin,
Pagans,
Radio Birdman,
Marine Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Anakelly,
Lower 48,
Reagan Youth,
Second Layer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Juan Atkins,
Sister Nancy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cybotron,
David Axelrod,
Y Pants,
Japan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Saccharine Trust,
Anthony Braxton,
Erasure,
The Victims,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.