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 Djibouti and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soulsonic Force to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Country Teasers,
Section 25,
Los Fastidios,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terrestrial Tones,
Neu!,
Radio Birdman,
Slave,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Five Americans,
David Bowie,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bobby Byrd,
The Walker Brothers,
Al Stewart,
The Gun Club,
Gong,
Steve Hackett,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Sherman,
Skarface,
Harmonia,
Ohio Players,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Pierre Henry,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Wire,
Magazine,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Erykah Badu,
Marvin Gaye,
The Victims,
Brass Construction,
Amon Düül,
Nils Olav,
Boredoms,
In Retrospect,
Dave Gahan,
X-Ray Spex,
Dorothy Ashby,
Todd Terry,
The Shadows of Knight,
Byron Stingily,
Tubeway Army,
Mark Hollis,
OOIOO,
Oblivians,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
Wally Richardson,
Black Pus,
John Foxx,
The Toasters,
Kenny Larkin,
Zapp,
Blancmange,
Bang On A Can,
Icehouse,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.