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 Libya and from Toronto.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Quando Quango to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rapeman,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Erykah Badu,
The Fire Engines,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ice-T,
Roxy Music,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Brick,
Pere Ubu,
Japan,
Ten City,
Adolescents,
Y Pants,
Hasil Adkins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Country Teasers,
Bill Wells,
JFA,
Anakelly,
The Zeros,
Mars,
Nation of Ulysses,
R.M.O.,
Average White Band,
Monks,
Bobby Sherman,
Fear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Half Japanese,
Whodini,
Moss Icon,
Scrapy,
Todd Terry,
X-101,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maleditus Sound,
Dawn Penn,
Alison Limerick,
Heaven 17,
Los Fastidios,
Angry Samoans,
Jeru the Damaja,
Loose Ends,
Newcleus,
Saccharine Trust,
Ituana,
Cybotron,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Josef K,
Absolute Body Control,
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.
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.