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 Japan and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet 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 AZ to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
June Days,
Cybotron,
cv313,
Boredoms,
The Pop Group,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Aaron Thompson,
Funky Four + One,
The Offenders,
The Seeds,
Dawn Penn,
Grauzone,
Agitation Free,
Country Teasers,
Lower 48,
ABBA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Happenings,
Kas Product,
Khruangbin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Warsaw,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sixth Finger,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Gladiators,
Ultravox,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Neon Judgement,
Skaos,
Flamin' Groovies,
The J.B.'s,
Loose Ends,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Alphaville,
Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
Echospace,
The Dave Clark Five,
Talk Talk,
The Cowsills,
Sarah Menescal,
Ronan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Davy DMX,
Donny Hathaway,
Smog,
The Invisible,
Dual Sessions,
Brass Construction,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Buzzcocks,
Fad Gadget,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Audionom,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.