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 Nicaragua and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Half Japanese to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Warsaw,
David Axelrod,
Suburban Knight,
Crispian St. Peters,
Connie Case,
Depeche Mode,
cv313,
Shuggie Otis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deadbeat,
The Dead C,
Roxy Music,
Fad Gadget,
Judy Mowatt,
The Toasters,
Morten Harket,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Liliput,
K-Klass,
The Skatalites,
Eric B and Rakim,
Slick Rick,
Kaleidoscope,
The Tremeloes,
The Names,
Brass Construction,
Heaven 17,
The J.B.'s,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sisters of Mercy,
Girls At Our Best!,
Boredoms,
8 Eyed Spy,
Can,
Loose Ends,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ornette Coleman,
John Holt,
John Foxx,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Grey Daturas,
The Velvet Underground,
KRS-One,
Bluetip,
Lakeside,
Archie Shepp,
Animal Collective,
Dawn Penn,
Monks,
Funky Four + One,
Talk Talk,
Vainqueur,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Alarm Clocks,
Juan Atkins,
The Mummies,
ABBA,
Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant, Quadrant.
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.