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 Andorra 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the linndrum 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 the Normal to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Move,
Marc Almond,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amon Düül,
Television Personalities,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-Ray Spex,
A Certain Ratio,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
Piero Umiliani,
Scientists,
Soft Cell,
Babytalk,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pretty Things,
Con Funk Shun,
The Real Kids,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blancmange,
KRS-One,
Harry Pussy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Flesh Eaters,
Swans,
EPMD,
Al Stewart,
Fela Kuti,
Judy Mowatt,
Deepchord,
Hashim,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rotary Connection,
Don Cherry,
Sandy B,
Rakim,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
Blake Baxter,
Los Fastidios,
Loose Ends,
Flamin' Groovies,
Porter Ricks,
Dennis Brown,
Intrusion,
Guru Guru,
Swell Maps,
Zapp,
Terry Callier,
Fad Gadget,
David Axelrod,
Fat Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Brothers Johnson,
Hoover,
The Leaves,
Radiohead,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.