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 Egypt and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Roger Hodgson to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Sun Ra,
Toni Rubio,
The Grass Roots,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
kango's stein massive,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Metal Thangz,
Negative Approach,
The Knickerbockers,
Agitation Free,
Camberwell Now,
Bob Dylan,
Television Personalities,
Gregory Isaacs,
Roger Hodgson,
Banda Bassotti,
Josef K,
Goldenarms,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scrapy,
Bluetip,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Count Five,
Jandek,
Joey Negro,
Faraquet,
Make Up,
Roxy Music,
Public Enemy,
Gang Green,
The Leaves,
Gichy Dan,
Lower 48,
Joyce Sims,
Vainqueur,
Marc Almond,
Ohio Players,
Thee Headcoats,
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens,
Sandy B,
The Invisible,
Youth Brigade,
Roy Ayers,
Nick Fraelich,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Minor Threat,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Sonics,
This Heat,
Laurel Aitken,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Neon Judgement,
Moebius,
Kurtis Blow,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.