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 Jamaica and from Paris.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Yazoo to the rock 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Alison Limerick,
U.S. Maple,
Lucky Dragons,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Accadde A,
Moby Grape,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crime,
the Human League,
Black Sheep,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Archie Shepp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
James White and The Blacks,
Deepchord,
Lyres,
Bootsy Collins,
ABBA,
Livin' Joy,
Robert Wyatt,
DNA,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Barry Ungar,
Main Source,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gories,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jeff Mills,
Von Mondo,
Althea and Donna,
World's Most,
The Young Rascals,
The Zeros,
T. Rex,
Anakelly,
Sällskapet,
Wasted Youth,
Barrington Levy,
Ituana,
The Busters,
Bush Tetras,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amon Düül,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gong,
June Days,
Newcleus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mr. Review,
Royal Trux,
Pantaleimon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Sherman,
Roy Ayers,
Eve St. Jones,
Scan 7,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.