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 Palau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Letta Mbulu to the grunge 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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
The Fuzztones,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brothers Johnson,
Rod Modell,
Skriet,
Sarah Menescal,
Cluster,
Wings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pylon,
The Dirtbombs,
Pere Ubu,
The Leaves,
Reuben Wilson,
Eric Dolphy,
Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Monks,
Hashim,
Kurtis Blow,
Al Stewart,
Con Funk Shun,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobby Byrd,
The Fall,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eddi Front,
The Techniques,
Neu!,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ludus,
The Litter,
Blancmange,
Main Source,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tears for Fears,
Morten Harket,
Minutemen,
Robert Görl,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
June of 44,
Robert Wyatt,
Whodini,
The Smiths,
Crime,
Ken Boothe,
The Birthday Party,
The Pop Group,
Quantec,
Simply Red,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pussy Galore,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gories,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.