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 Mauritania and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 Talk Talk to the dance 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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moody Blues,
Skarface,
The Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jacques Brel,
The Mojo Men,
Mary Jane Girls,
Leonard Cohen,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maleditus Sound,
Model 500,
Ponytail,
Flash Fearless,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dead C,
Kayak,
DJ Sneak,
Altered Images,
Neil Young,
Chris & Cosey,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Man Eating Sloth,
Yellowson,
Jeff Lynne,
Moss Icon,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dual Sessions,
Idris Muhammad,
Camouflage,
Guru Guru,
Japan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Robert Wyatt,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Gang Gang Dance,
Arcadia,
Dennis Brown,
Black Pus,
Boz Scaggs,
the Swans,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
Liliput,
The Neon Judgement,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Fire Engines,
Blancmange,
The Blackbyrds,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spoonie Gee,
FM Einheit,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Motorama,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joe Finger,
The Star Department,
Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan, Gichy Dan.
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.