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 Croatia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer 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 Flipper to the disco 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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kenny Larkin,
Scrapy,
Marvin Gaye,
The Victims,
Scientists,
Blake Baxter,
Morten Harket,
Barrington Levy,
The Fugs,
Jerry's Kids,
The Kinks,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Dirtbombs,
Colin Newman,
Kas Product,
Skaos,
Lightning Bolt,
Massinfluence,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter & Gordon,
Shoche,
Junior Murvin,
Joe Finger,
Eden Ahbez,
Slick Rick,
Cecil Taylor,
Bauhaus,
Jeru the Damaja,
Big Daddy Kane,
Graham Central Station,
Wings,
Laurel Aitken,
The J.B.'s,
Al Stewart,
Hasil Adkins,
Rapeman,
Lower 48,
E-Dancer,
The Skatalites,
Monks,
The Human League,
The Star Department,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lyres,
June Days,
China Crisis,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camouflage,
Intrusion,
Lucky Dragons,
Glambeats Corp.,
Idris Muhammad,
Tubeway Army,
Dawn Penn,
Gang Starr,
The Residents,
Chrome,
Rosa Yemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.