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 Taiwan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 World's Most to the dance 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Cramps,
Harry Pussy,
Average White Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Connie Case,
Massinfluence,
Wire,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Pop Group,
Magazine,
Wally Richardson,
a-ha,
Outsiders,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Wings,
Rotary Connection,
Marcia Griffiths,
Fat Boys,
Todd Terry,
The Litter,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lindisfarne,
Iggy Pop,
The Black Dice,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fortunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Michelle Simonal,
Lucky Dragons,
The Pretty Things,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mark Hollis,
Toni Rubio,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Cluster,
the Slits,
Reuben Wilson,
Duran Duran,
cv313,
The Smiths,
Sister Nancy,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Frankie Knuckles,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Radio Birdman,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Slits,
Pantytec,
Saccharine Trust,
Can,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Grauzone,
Gang Green,
MC5,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.