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 Sri Lanka and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron 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 The Five Americans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dead C. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Maleditus Sound,
The Wake,
Dennis Brown,
Technova,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Remains,
Pantytec,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eden Ahbez,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Swans,
Liliput,
Grey Daturas,
Unwound,
Nas,
The Mummies,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Slick Rick,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tomorrow,
The Monochrome Set,
Gang Starr,
Joe Smooth,
Scientists,
Animal Collective,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rekid,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Smiths,
Rites of Spring,
Black Flag,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Intrusion,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Spandau Ballet,
The Cowsills,
The Angels of Light,
Gichy Dan,
Fluxion,
Pagans,
One Last Wish,
The Star Department,
Boz Scaggs,
Leonard Cohen,
Josef K,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Black Pus,
10cc,
Gerry Rafferty,
F. McDonald,
Cybotron,
Lakeside,
Cymande,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight, Suburban Knight.
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.