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 Rwanda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Michael McDonald 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 Pulsallama to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Machine,
the Association,
Oblivians,
Brass Construction,
Minnie Riperton,
The Techniques,
Glenn Branca,
Bauhaus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kayak,
OOIOO,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Move,
The Gories,
Harmonia,
Aaron Thompson,
Mad Mike,
Camouflage,
The J.B.'s,
The Cowsills,
Los Fastidios,
Todd Terry,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Technova,
Electric Prunes,
Accadde A,
Negative Approach,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Remains,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Letta Mbulu,
Maleditus Sound,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moebius,
Monolake,
Supertramp,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Flipper,
Smog,
Sarah Menescal,
Cal Tjader,
Tubeway Army,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Agent Orange,
Circle Jerks,
Blake Baxter,
Derrick Morgan,
Bluetip,
Josef K,
cv313,
Von Mondo,
The Skatalites,
Byron Stingily,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Cymande,
Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX, Davy DMX.
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.