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 Serbia and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin 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 Todd Rundgren to the dance 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '80s 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 Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alton Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joe Smooth,
Unwound,
John Lydon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Little Man,
Soul II Soul,
Sugar Minott,
Blossom Toes,
Depeche Mode,
Delon & Dalcan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Terry Callier,
Cymande,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Velvet Underground,
Black Flag,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Althea and Donna,
DNA,
Brass Construction,
Dennis Brown,
June of 44,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New York Dolls,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dorothy Ashby,
Brand Nubian,
JFA,
World's Most,
Crash Course in Science,
Television,
Mandrill,
Gang Starr,
DJ Style,
The Techniques,
Marmalade,
Kerri Chandler,
Deepchord,
Junior Murvin,
The Stooges,
Whodini,
Lucky Dragons,
These Immortal Souls,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal,
Amazonics,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Isaac Hayes,
Lightning Bolt,
The Evens,
Godley & Creme,
Gerry Rafferty,
Maleditus Sound,
Scion,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Martian,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.