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 Romania and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 arpeggiator 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 Royal Trux to the techno 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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
the Normal,
The Red Krayola,
Radiohead,
Unwound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Colin Newman,
Roger Hodgson,
Ponytail,
The Standells,
Camouflage,
Average White Band,
The Knickerbockers,
Television,
The Gap Band,
Marvin Gaye,
ABC,
X-101,
Dennis Brown,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Animal Collective,
Niagra,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blancmange,
Absolute Body Control,
Duran Duran,
Oblivians,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Essential Logic,
John Lydon,
Clear Light,
Pussy Galore,
The Selecter,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fuzztones,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Circle Jerks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
John Holt,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mission of Burma,
Chris Corsano,
Spandau Ballet,
Anakelly,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Saints,
Bronski Beat,
Cal Tjader,
Harpers Bizarre,
Moebius,
Groovy Waters,
Grandmaster Flash,
T.S.O.L.,
Danielle Patucci,
Lower 48,
Section 25,
Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
Swans,
Moss Icon,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.