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 Belarus and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Seeds to the electroclash 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 The Techniques. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
The Monochrome Set,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
the Human League,
Kayak,
Sonic Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Slave,
Wally Richardson,
EPMD,
Nico,
the Slits,
Lalann,
Goldenarms,
John Holt,
Outsiders,
Lindisfarne,
Yellowson,
Bob Dylan,
The Happenings,
Pole,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monks,
Faraquet,
The Modern Lovers,
the Sonics,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tubeway Army,
MC5,
The Gap Band,
Yusef Lateef,
Mo-Dettes,
Vladislav Delay,
Barrington Levy,
Icehouse,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Anthony Braxton,
Hashim,
Joensuu 1685,
The Cure,
Electric Prunes,
Scrapy,
Althea and Donna,
Lightning Bolt,
The Black Dice,
Rapeman,
Swans,
The Residents,
Technova,
Dawn Penn,
The Offenders,
Shuggie Otis,
Lower 48,
PIL,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dorothy Ashby,
Audionom,
the Soft Cell,
L. Decosne,
The Five Americans,
Ultra Naté,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.