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 Cyprus and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Gong to the techno 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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Man Eating Sloth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Suicide,
L. Decosne,
The Toasters,
The Happenings,
Brick,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tears for Fears,
The Smiths,
Sun City Girls,
Severed Heads,
Iggy Pop,
Jawbox,
Tomorrow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
David Axelrod,
The Vogues,
Can,
Qualms,
Banda Bassotti,
EPMD,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
ABC,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Saccharine Trust,
Nik Kershaw,
Lebanon Hanover,
Zapp,
Absolute Body Control,
Quadrant,
The Busters,
Erykah Badu,
Smog,
The Gun Club,
Spoonie Gee,
Cluster,
Easy Going,
Ice-T,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
These Immortal Souls,
Aswad,
Kayak,
The Saints,
Wolf Eyes,
Negative Approach,
The Move,
Black Bananas,
Janne Schatter,
Lou Christie,
Ohio Players,
Pussy Galore,
Moss Icon,
Joyce Sims,
The Doobie Brothers,
Laurel Aitken,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Charles Mingus,
Crash Course in Science,
Roxette,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.