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 Gabon and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Kool Moe Dee to the funk 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
The Monochrome Set,
Dual Sessions,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sarah Menescal,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Star Department,
Erykah Badu,
The Pop Group,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Archie Shepp,
Kurtis Blow,
Agent Orange,
Trumans Water,
Bootsy Collins,
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
Kerri Chandler,
the Association,
Bang On A Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Au Pairs,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gap Band,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dave Gahan,
Rod Modell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Pretty Things,
Soft Cell,
The Divine Comedy,
Marvin Gaye,
The Evens,
Yazoo,
Glambeats Corp.,
Radiohead,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Move,
Sugar Minott,
The Fire Engines,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Massinfluence,
John Holt,
PIL,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Curtis Mayfield,
Hot Snakes,
Organ,
Nils Olav,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultravox,
Ten City,
K-Klass,
Ludus,
OOIOO,
June Days,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Walker Brothers,
June of 44,
The Smiths,
Mandrill,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.