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 Yemen and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Soft Cell 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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
the Human League,
Ultimate Spinach,
Second Layer,
Brass Construction,
Albert Ayler,
The Stooges,
Lyres,
Bronski Beat,
Thompson Twins,
Zero Boys,
Tears for Fears,
The Victims,
Barclay James Harvest,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gabor Szabo,
H. Thieme,
Gang Green,
Rufus Thomas,
Parry Music,
The Dave Clark Five,
One Last Wish,
Unwound,
Maleditus Sound,
Motorama,
This Heat,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Searchers,
Flash Fearless,
Chris Corsano,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lindisfarne,
Flipper,
Quantec,
DNA,
Bootsy Collins,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sex Pistols,
Tropical Tobacco,
Godley & Creme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fear,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dennis Brown,
Jandek,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
Amazonics,
Junior Murvin,
B.T. Express,
Camouflage,
The Mummies,
the Slits,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Nils Olav,
The Wake,
Wolf Eyes,
Fela Kuti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.