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 Indonesia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 JFA to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
The Durutti Column,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
The Misunderstood,
Pussy Galore,
The Real Kids,
MDC,
Agent Orange,
Bush Tetras,
Erykah Badu,
a-ha,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang Starr,
10cc,
The Leaves,
Section 25,
Pet Shop Boys,
John Lydon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minny Pops,
Agitation Free,
Moebius,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
John Foxx,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The J.B.'s,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
the Soft Cell,
LL Cool J,
48th St. Collective,
Pantytec,
Alton Ellis,
Skriet,
Freddie Wadling,
The Offenders,
Zapp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
Qualms,
Loose Ends,
Ice-T,
Severed Heads,
Trumans Water,
Patti Smith,
Ponytail,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Audionom,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sun Ra,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.