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 Latvia and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Popol Vuh,
Kurtis Blow,
The Doobie Brothers,
The J.B.'s,
Cameo,
AZ,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lyres,
Beasts of Bourbon,
New Order,
Byron Stingily,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Soft Machine,
Brick,
Pussy Galore,
Bobby Sherman,
T.S.O.L.,
The Real Kids,
JFA,
Archie Shepp,
Rekid,
Godley & Creme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Talk Talk,
David Bowie,
Scott Walker,
Susan Cadogan,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
Japan,
Silicon Teens,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Wyatt,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Fraelich,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crispy Ambulance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Gories,
Aswad,
June of 44,
Marine Girls,
Television Personalities,
Neu!,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
Davy DMX,
Althea and Donna,
The Human League,
Fela Kuti,
Crooked Eye,
Country Teasers,
MC5,
Marmalade,
Derrick Morgan,
Accadde A,
These Immortal Souls,
Ornette Coleman,
Roxy Music,
Mo-Dettes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Saccharine Trust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Technova, Technova, Technova, Technova.
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.