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 France and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bizarre Inc. to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Scion,
Lungfish,
The Grass Roots,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rufus Thomas,
Easy Going,
Soul Sonic Force,
Skaos,
Anakelly,
Amazonics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Slits,
David Axelrod,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Yazoo,
The Velvet Underground,
Charles Mingus,
Kenny Larkin,
Essential Logic,
Rites of Spring,
Mars,
Inner City,
Sällskapet,
H. Thieme,
Cal Tjader,
Urselle,
Public Image Ltd.,
David McCallum,
Oblivians,
Q and Not U,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Holt,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bill Wells,
The Happenings,
Royal Trux,
This Heat,
Wings,
Second Layer,
Guru Guru,
Supertramp,
Ronan,
In Retrospect,
Joey Negro,
Slave,
Marmalade,
Man Parrish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Das Ding,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Last Poets,
The Real Kids,
UT,
Niagra,
Carl Craig,
Fela Kuti,
X-Ray Spex,
Crime,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.