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 New Zealand and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Jakarta.
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 guitar 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 CMW to the grunge 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
It's A Beautiful Day,
PIL,
June of 44,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Görl,
The New Christs,
The Fugs,
Morten Harket,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scratch Acid,
Andrew Hill,
Mandrill,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Names,
Lakeside,
The Monks,
Erasure,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Peter & Gordon,
Joy Division,
Janne Schatter,
Camouflage,
Kerri Chandler,
D'Angelo,
Pharoah Sanders,
Davy DMX,
David Axelrod,
Buzzcocks,
Harmonia,
The Doors,
Qualms,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sister Nancy,
F. McDonald,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick Morgan,
Ultra Naté,
Y Pants,
10cc,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Deadbeat,
Eden Ahbez,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soulsonic Force,
Mantronix,
The Detroit Cobras,
Arthur Verocai,
Jeru the Damaja,
World's Most,
Don Cherry,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Laurel Aitken,
Freddie Wadling,
Depeche Mode,
Heaven 17,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
the Sonics,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.