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 Jordan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Human League to the jazz 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls 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?
Mo-Dettes,
Slave,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Urselle,
a-ha,
The Misunderstood,
The Fuzztones,
The Skatalites,
U.S. Maple,
Model 500,
Bang On A Can,
Cluster,
Monolake,
Fatback Band,
Crime,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sandy B,
Traffic Nightmare,
Little Man,
the Soft Cell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minutemen,
Kurtis Blow,
Average White Band,
Cecil Taylor,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cameo,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ohio Players,
Rhythm & Sound,
Agitation Free,
X-101,
The Durutti Column,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Second Layer,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marcia Griffiths,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Faust,
Maurizio,
Youth Brigade,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Delta 5,
Fear,
Popol Vuh,
Sun City Girls,
Desert Stars,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lyres,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sixth Finger,
The Beau Brummels,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
LL Cool J,
Main Source,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.