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 Toronto.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Flash Fearless to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tears for Fears. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arthur Verocai record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minnie Riperton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crash Course in Science,
Sonny Sharrock,
Scion,
FM Einheit,
Television,
Skaos,
Minutemen,
Erykah Badu,
Radio Birdman,
Eric Dolphy,
Nas,
Franke,
Michelle Simonal,
Mark Hollis,
Terry Callier,
Eurythmics,
The Dead C,
Ultimate Spinach,
Unwound,
Monolake,
Los Fastidios,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Pus,
Kas Product,
John Coltrane,
Ituana,
F. McDonald,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
Depeche Mode,
10cc,
ABBA,
Yaz,
Maleditus Sound,
The Moleskins,
Rosa Yemen,
The Standells,
The Monochrome Set,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Amon Düül II,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aural Exciters,
DJ Sneak,
The Smiths,
OOIOO,
Gang of Four,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
Reagan Youth,
Surgeon,
Black Bananas,
Scientists,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sparks,
The Walker Brothers,
The Gladiators,
Arab on Radar,
Leonard Cohen,
Siglo XX,
Make Up,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.