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 Botswana and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the funk 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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Jandek,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kas Product,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mars,
Marvin Gaye,
Dead Boys,
Clear Light,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
Brick,
China Crisis,
Buzzcocks,
Loose Ends,
Visage,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Electric Prunes,
Siglo XX,
The Blues Magoos,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nirvana,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Audionom,
Half Japanese,
Sonic Youth,
Lucky Dragons,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
Skaos,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bang On A Can,
Bluetip,
Brass Construction,
X-Ray Spex,
Joyce Sims,
The Residents,
Organ,
Black Flag,
Procol Harum,
The Selecter,
Hasil Adkins,
The Techniques,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
MDC,
Quando Quango,
Outsiders,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Faust,
Sonny Sharrock,
Technova,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Invisible,
Eli Mardock,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Move,
Ronan,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.