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 Czech Republic and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 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 Motorama to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Big Daddy Kane 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Sixth Finger,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Joyce Sims,
Girls At Our Best!,
Junior Murvin,
Easy Going,
Cluster,
Henry Cow,
The Sound,
Matthew Halsall,
Parry Music,
Danielle Patucci,
Minutemen,
Gang Starr,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Associates,
Little Man,
Marmalade,
Qualms,
Slave,
Ornette Coleman,
Hasil Adkins,
Judy Mowatt,
Alice Coltrane,
Make Up,
Boogie Down Productions,
Main Source,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ten City,
Michelle Simonal,
Pole,
David Axelrod,
Ohio Players,
48th St. Collective,
Sex Pistols,
David McCallum,
The Victims,
The Misunderstood,
Agitation Free,
Minny Pops,
Deepchord,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
Roxy Music,
Chris Corsano,
Joensuu 1685,
Marc Almond,
Tomorrow,
Black Flag,
Thee Headcoats,
Anakelly,
The Five Americans,
The Mojo Men,
Bobby Sherman,
The Cure,
The Shadows of Knight,
Country Teasers,
The Red Krayola,
Eric B and Rakim,
Outsiders,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Grauzone,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.