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 Russia and from Jakarta.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lucky Dragons to the jazz 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a F. McDonald record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Ten City,
Scott Walker,
The Saints,
The Modern Lovers,
Altered Images,
Morten Harket,
The Moleskins,
Lou Christie,
Al Stewart,
Michelle Simonal,
Eyeless In Gaza,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cowsills,
Juan Atkins,
Erasure,
X-Ray Spex,
Minutemen,
Ohio Players,
Metal Thangz,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soulsonic Force,
John Lydon,
Parry Music,
Bluetip,
Isaac Hayes,
Kenny Larkin,
Mr. Review,
the Germs,
Barbara Tucker,
Jandek,
Drive Like Jehu,
kango's stein massive,
Zero Boys,
Nik Kershaw,
Cluster,
Cabaret Voltaire,
K-Klass,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare,
PIL,
Absolute Body Control,
Index,
Spandau Ballet,
Young Marble Giants,
Maleditus Sound,
Rhythm & Sound,
Angry Samoans,
Monolake,
The Grass Roots,
Q and Not U,
Roxy Music,
Television Personalities,
New Age Steppers,
The Offenders,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.