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 Iceland and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Yaz to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 marimba and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
The Dave Clark Five,
Danielle Patucci,
Pagans,
AZ,
Deepchord,
The Divine Comedy,
Camouflage,
Half Japanese,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hoover,
Arcadia,
The Sound,
The Star Department,
Infiniti,
K-Klass,
Altered Images,
The Black Dice,
Newcleus,
Rapeman,
the Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Easy Going,
X-102,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Idris Muhammad,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eden Ahbez,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Slackers,
Wolf Eyes,
The Blackbyrds,
Circle Jerks,
Hasil Adkins,
The Associates,
Minor Threat,
The Cramps,
Cybotron,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cameo,
Theoretical Girls,
Swell Maps,
Motorama,
The Gladiators,
China Crisis,
The Grass Roots,
Dawn Penn,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Quantec,
DNA,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mission of Burma,
Flash Fearless,
Little Man,
Qualms,
The Doobie Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.