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 Thailand and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Kenny Larkin to the rap 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul Sonic Force,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Avey Tare,
Man Parrish,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Byrd,
Lalann,
Echospace,
Grauzone,
Morten Harket,
Babytalk,
Warsaw,
Smog,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Surgeon,
K-Klass,
Jimmy McGriff,
Maleditus Sound,
Dennis Brown,
The Toasters,
Reuben Wilson,
Deepchord,
Marcia Griffiths,
Television Personalities,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gap Band,
Gang Starr,
The Shadows of Knight,
Flash Fearless,
The Evens,
Tim Buckley,
Trumans Water,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Khruangbin,
Scientists,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Divine Comedy,
Barry Ungar,
The Names,
Skarface,
Suicide,
Sound Behaviour,
Roxy Music,
Altered Images,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Basic Channel,
Technova,
Subhumans,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
FM Einheit,
The Zeros,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ludus,
Eurythmics,
Todd Rundgren,
The Offenders,
June of 44,
Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow, Kurtis Blow.
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.