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 Poland and from Portland.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Philadelphia.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lyres to the disco 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Bowie,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Gap Band,
Davy DMX,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Tremeloes,
Sun Ra,
Reuben Wilson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Althea and Donna,
Motorama,
The Techniques,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Slackers,
The Divine Comedy,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter & Gordon,
The J.B.'s,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gladiators,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Victims,
The Trojans,
Bluetip,
The Mojo Men,
Soul II Soul,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
Girls At Our Best!,
R.M.O.,
Michelle Simonal,
Harmonia,
Ten City,
The Searchers,
Idris Muhammad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Cheater Slicks,
Simply Red,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Tim Buckley,
Sister Nancy,
Ice-T,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dennis Brown,
Lower 48,
Soft Cell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Newcleus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Association,
Zapp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bobby Byrd,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grey Daturas,
Funkadelic,
Soulsonic Force,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.