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 Cuba and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare 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 Anakelly to the rap 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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Crime,
Kerri Chandler,
Bill Near,
Severed Heads,
Silicon Teens,
Youth Brigade,
Pussy Galore,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Shadows of Knight,
One Last Wish,
Sister Nancy,
ABC,
JFA,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
The Fugs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Tropical Tobacco,
Connie Case,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deadbeat,
The Young Rascals,
Index,
Magma,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Real Kids,
Con Funk Shun,
Donald Byrd,
Arab on Radar,
Aloha Tigers,
the Soft Cell,
Danielle Patucci,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gong,
Quantec,
Slick Rick,
Godley & Creme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Funky Four + One,
Audionom,
Pole,
The Blackbyrds,
Letta Mbulu,
Howard Jones,
June Days,
Bobby Womack,
Eurythmics,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronnie Foster,
Grey Daturas,
Inner City,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.