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 Micronesia and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Todd Rundgren to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Walker Brothers,
Wolf Eyes,
Youth Brigade,
Von Mondo,
Rites of Spring,
Max Romeo,
Arcadia,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
E-Dancer,
Lyres,
Fat Boys,
Boredoms,
Nik Kershaw,
The Residents,
Cymande,
Soft Machine,
Neil Young,
The Victims,
The Associates,
Negative Approach,
Soul Sonic Force,
Intrusion,
Adolescents,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
John Foxx,
Oblivians,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
PIL,
Stetsasonic,
Scan 7,
Mars,
Eric Copeland,
Drexciya,
Suicide,
Deadbeat,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Q and Not U,
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
K-Klass,
Aural Exciters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
T.S.O.L.,
Amon Düül II,
Eddi Front,
The Mummies,
Yazoo,
Ice-T,
Grandmaster Flash,
Porter Ricks,
Derrick May,
Clear Light,
the Fania All-Stars,
Mantronix,
Unwound,
The Techniques,
Junior Murvin,
Joyce Sims,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.