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 Netherlands and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Searchers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radio Birdman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Andrew Hill,
Wings,
Ten City,
Big Daddy Kane,
Adolescents,
Easy Going,
Nas,
Schoolly D,
Robert Wyatt,
Sun City Girls,
Duran Duran,
Guru Guru,
Robert Hood,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Supertramp,
Bizarre Inc.,
Darondo,
Fugazi,
Lindisfarne,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sex Pistols,
Anakelly,
Steve Hackett,
T.S.O.L.,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Suburban Knight,
the Normal,
The Mojo Men,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Gun Club,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Desert Stars,
Lungfish,
Rufus Thomas,
Byron Stingily,
Urselle,
Bluetip,
Essential Logic,
Roger Hodgson,
Terrestrial Tones,
Derrick May,
The Fall,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Leaves,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiohead,
June Days,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Y Pants,
Lalo Schifrin,
Altered Images,
Faust,
Aural Exciters,
Alphaville,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gap Band,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.