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 Ghana and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer 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 Essential Logic to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Lower 48,
The Gun Club,
Tubeway Army,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Organ,
Unwound,
Erasure,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deakin,
Negative Approach,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Funkadelic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jacques Brel,
The Monochrome Set,
Quantec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker,
Gong,
Mantronix,
MC5,
Pussy Galore,
Roger Hodgson,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
June Days,
Don Cherry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Electric Prunes,
Desert Stars,
Slave,
The Detroit Cobras,
Procol Harum,
Zero Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Heaven 17,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Toasters,
X-102,
UT,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
Suburban Knight,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Misunderstood,
Arcadia,
Chris & Cosey,
Rekid,
Pantaleimon,
Banda Bassotti,
Gang of Four,
The Count Five,
The Busters,
Colin Newman,
Thee Headcoats,
Howard Jones,
Bill Wells,
Amon Düül II,
James White and The Blacks,
The Leaves,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.