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 Luxembourg and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer 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 Surgeon to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vainqueur record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brothers Johnson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
EPMD,
Jacques Brel,
Guru Guru,
Joyce Sims,
Mandrill,
The Five Americans,
Robert Görl,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cluster,
Skarface,
Second Layer,
Nik Kershaw,
Panda Bear,
Average White Band,
The Leaves,
Terry Callier,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Loose Ends,
Flamin' Groovies,
Circle Jerks,
Radio Birdman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Theoretical Girls,
The Count Five,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chris & Cosey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camouflage,
Sex Pistols,
Rekid,
Animal Collective,
Amon Düül II,
Model 500,
Ornette Coleman,
Yellowson,
Jeru the Damaja,
June of 44,
Sound Behaviour,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
A Certain Ratio,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jawbox,
Marmalade,
The Victims,
Nas,
E-Dancer,
Index,
K-Klass,
The Busters,
Mo-Dettes,
the Soft Cell,
JFA,
Al Stewart,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rakim,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.