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 Turkmenistan and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 Fatback Band to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Steve Hackett. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Average White Band,
ABC,
Joe Smooth,
Wasted Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
The Five Americans,
The Residents,
Harpers Bizarre,
ABBA,
Sister Nancy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lungfish,
Excepter,
Oblivians,
Section 25,
The Fugs,
Babytalk,
Judy Mowatt,
The Trojans,
Amon Düül II,
Mad Mike,
Second Layer,
Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Lightning Bolt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bootsy Collins,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
A Certain Ratio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Black Flag,
Derrick Morgan,
Susan Cadogan,
Patti Smith,
T.S.O.L.,
Nils Olav,
Infiniti,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bobby Sherman,
Fear,
The Divine Comedy,
Newcleus,
Scrapy,
Thompson Twins,
The Doors,
Boredoms,
E-Dancer,
Sällskapet,
The Monochrome Set,
The Barracudas,
The Invisible,
The Happenings,
Matthew Halsall,
Mo-Dettes,
Lalann,
Bronski Beat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brick,
The Leaves,
Letta Mbulu,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.