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 France and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Davy DMX to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Yusef Lateef,
One Last Wish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Half Japanese,
The Cowsills,
Trumans Water,
Dual Sessions,
The Buckinghams,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
Surgeon,
Fugazi,
Cal Tjader,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ronnie Foster,
Jacob Miller,
Von Mondo,
The Index,
The Grass Roots,
Fat Boys,
Toni Rubio,
Agent Orange,
Sister Nancy,
The Techniques,
The Leaves,
The Doors,
The Smoke,
Wasted Youth,
Masters at Work,
Grey Daturas,
Brothers Johnson,
Colin Newman,
Mission of Burma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Kerrie Biddell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare,
Groovy Waters,
The Velvet Underground,
The Selecter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delta 5,
Max Romeo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Yazoo,
EPMD,
Bobby Sherman,
Deakin,
Gang of Four,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.