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 Kenya and from Cairo.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joey Negro to the disco 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 The Stooges. All the underground hits.
All Erasure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Goldenarms,
Gabor Szabo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deadbeat,
Rufus Thomas,
Maurizio,
Nik Kershaw,
Minny Pops,
The Tremeloes,
Audionom,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Zero Boys,
Barbara Tucker,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
New Order,
Vainqueur,
Masters at Work,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
Japan,
The Grass Roots,
The Wake,
The Trojans,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Intrusion,
Absolute Body Control,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Suicide,
Malaria!,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Associates,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Monolake,
Wings,
The Slits,
kango's stein massive,
Godley & Creme,
The Smoke,
Basic Channel,
June Days,
Letta Mbulu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Hardrive,
The Offenders,
Gastr Del Sol,
Swell Maps,
Kenny Larkin,
The Standells,
Hoover,
Ponytail,
John Cale,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.