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 Greece and from Lagos.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 marimba 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 Camberwell Now to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Rufus Thomas,
David McCallum,
The Dave Clark Five,
Graham Central Station,
Faust,
Model 500,
Rekid,
Joy Division,
Scientists,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-102,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Carl Craig,
Jerry's Kids,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skaos,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Godley & Creme,
Metal Thangz,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amazonics,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Guru Guru,
Reagan Youth,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Gladiators,
The Five Americans,
Robert Wyatt,
Saccharine Trust,
the Human League,
The Real Kids,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Saints,
Joensuu 1685,
Erykah Badu,
Kerri Chandler,
Terrestrial Tones,
Minutemen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crash Course in Science,
Gong,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
PIL,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Swell Maps,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Steve Hackett,
The Pretty Things,
Traffic Nightmare,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fugs,
Monks,
Motorama,
Unwound,
Drexciya,
Tommy Roe,
Eden Ahbez,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.