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 Jamaica and from Milan.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hoover to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jacob Miller,
Reagan Youth,
Al Stewart,
Groovy Waters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sandy B,
New York Dolls,
Yellowson,
Boz Scaggs,
Archie Shepp,
Scion,
Jandek,
Joe Smooth,
Minny Pops,
Saccharine Trust,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kerri Chandler,
John Foxx,
Brothers Johnson,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
Television,
Niagra,
Black Flag,
the Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
EPMD,
Man Parrish,
The Martian,
The Cowsills,
Wings,
Vainqueur,
U.S. Maple,
Eli Mardock,
Eric Copeland,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Residents,
Desert Stars,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ronnie Foster,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Newcleus,
The Sonics,
The Skatalites,
Alton Ellis,
Alison Limerick,
Yazoo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bang On A Can,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kayak,
Quantec,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Subhumans,
The Fugs,
R.M.O.,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.