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 Portland.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lakeside to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Strawberry Alarm Clock. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gregory Isaacs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
La Düsseldorf,
John Foxx,
The Barracudas,
Bauhaus,
Royal Trux,
Joe Finger,
Grey Daturas,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joey Negro,
Donny Hathaway,
Infiniti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Minor Threat,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kurtis Blow,
Flipper,
Sun Ra,
Neil Young,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Victims,
MC5,
X-101,
Sällskapet,
Oblivians,
Delon & Dalcan,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kas Product,
Sister Nancy,
Erykah Badu,
Deakin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bill Wells,
Icehouse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Pop Group,
Barbara Tucker,
the Slits,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unwound,
Heaven 17,
The Modern Lovers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chris & Cosey,
Tres Demented,
The Five Americans,
Al Stewart,
Matthew Halsall,
Kenny Larkin,
The Smoke,
Prince Buster,
Soul II Soul,
The Angels of Light,
Electric Prunes,
The Black Dice,
One Last Wish,
Roger Hodgson,
D'Angelo,
Bobby Byrd,
Symarip,
Spandau Ballet,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wings,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.