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 Mexico 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Reagan Youth to the crunk 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 Residents. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roger Hodgson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
Fugazi,
Boredoms,
Shuggie Otis,
The Slits,
48th St. Collective,
Pierre Henry,
Agitation Free,
Cymande,
Adolescents,
Brick,
Lakeside,
Eurythmics,
Crooked Eye,
John Coltrane,
Soulsonic Force,
Tim Buckley,
New York Dolls,
OOIOO,
Rekid,
Kenny Larkin,
John Foxx,
Hashim,
A Certain Ratio,
Mantronix,
Massinfluence,
Juan Atkins,
Aswad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fuzztones,
Funky Four + One,
Fat Boys,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Talk Talk,
Von Mondo,
This Heat,
T. Rex,
Quadrant,
Quando Quango,
The Toasters,
Kaleidoscope,
Sun Ra,
Wolf Eyes,
Prince Buster,
Tom Boy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Moon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Metal Thangz,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlback,
Faraquet,
Isaac Hayes,
The Smiths,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terrestrial Tones,
Deepchord,
Moss Icon,
The Cramps,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.