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 Vanuatu and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Chrome to the rap 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Vogues,
Bang On A Can,
Rotary Connection,
Country Teasers,
Jawbox,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Moody Blues,
Chris & Cosey,
Altered Images,
The Pretty Things,
Cymande,
Average White Band,
Mary Jane Girls,
kango's stein massive,
B.T. Express,
Sun Ra,
The Cure,
Lou Reed,
Oblivians,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tommy Roe,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Aswad,
Cameo,
Agitation Free,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Fad Gadget,
Sixth Finger,
Connie Case,
Dawn Penn,
The Fortunes,
Suburban Knight,
Japan,
Icehouse,
Mars,
Derrick Morgan,
Gong,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cluster,
Pantytec,
Barclay James Harvest,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Doobie Brothers,
Sex Pistols,
Visage,
Skarface,
The Seeds,
Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
T.S.O.L.,
The Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
The Blues Magoos,
Todd Rundgren,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.