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 Chile and from New York.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 ABC to the jazz 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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hardrive,
Unwound,
Hot Snakes,
Crime,
Pantytec,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ohio Players,
David McCallum,
Roger Hodgson,
Brothers Johnson,
David Axelrod,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Modern Lovers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wire,
Dennis Brown,
Junior Murvin,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Jacques Brel,
Danielle Patucci,
Bauhaus,
Sandy B,
Franke,
The Fall,
Leonard Cohen,
The Zeros,
Pulsallama,
Todd Terry,
Soul II Soul,
LL Cool J,
Stetsasonic,
Magma,
The Blues Magoos,
Rekid,
Jeff Lynne,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Red Krayola,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lower 48,
Marcia Griffiths,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash,
Amon Düül II,
Prince Buster,
Moebius,
The Star Department,
B.T. Express,
Black Moon,
Section 25,
The Electric Prunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.