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 Monaco and from Salvador.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Leonard Cohen to the funk 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
The Motions,
Vainqueur,
Yusef Lateef,
Eric Dolphy,
Colin Newman,
The Busters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nas,
Minny Pops,
Bob Dylan,
Peter and Kerry,
DNA,
Bobby Womack,
Faraquet,
The Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lower 48,
Main Source,
Scott Walker,
Howard Jones,
Gang Green,
Television,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Los Fastidios,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Minnie Riperton,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Black Pus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Babytalk,
Glambeats Corp.,
Marmalade,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Foxx,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Sonics,
Stetsasonic,
Das Ding,
Unwound,
Bauhaus,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Pop Group,
The Seeds,
Harmonia,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marshall Jefferson,
Avey Tare,
Bill Near,
Alice Coltrane,
New Age Steppers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ultravox,
Aaron Thompson,
The Electric Prunes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bluetip,
Todd Rundgren,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.