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 New Zealand and from Tokyo.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joe Smooth to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Dave Gahan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Audionom,
Moss Icon,
Wings,
The Misunderstood,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Jeff Lynne,
X-102,
June of 44,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
Theoretical Girls,
Ituana,
Fifty Foot Hose,
B.T. Express,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fugs,
The Saints,
The Mojo Men,
Lindisfarne,
Eurythmics,
Roxy Music,
Wire,
Grey Daturas,
Ken Boothe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sarah Menescal,
Camouflage,
K-Klass,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kenny Larkin,
Main Source,
The Dirtbombs,
Easy Going,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Intrusion,
T.S.O.L.,
Adolescents,
Dark Day,
Groovy Waters,
Eli Mardock,
kango's stein massive,
Procol Harum,
H. Thieme,
The Litter,
Anthony Braxton,
Robert Wyatt,
Minnie Riperton,
Arthur Verocai,
Gichy Dan,
Scientists,
The Music Machine,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ludus,
Hasil Adkins,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.