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 Taiwan and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Massinfluence to the grunge 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Slave,
ABBA,
Sister Nancy,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeff Lynne,
The Smiths,
Rapeman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ponytail,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gap Band,
Suicide,
Josef K,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rakim,
KRS-One,
Robert Görl,
Fat Boys,
Lower 48,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Skarface,
Chris & Cosey,
The Durutti Column,
Ten City,
Minnie Riperton,
Judy Mowatt,
Ultravox,
Lalann,
Maleditus Sound,
Masters at Work,
Ornette Coleman,
Mad Mike,
Marine Girls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alice Coltrane,
Andrew Hill,
Suburban Knight,
Joensuu 1685,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed,
Crispian St. Peters,
Easy Going,
The Young Rascals,
AZ,
Franke,
Flash Fearless,
a-ha,
Camouflage,
Bobby Byrd,
Q and Not U,
Cheater Slicks,
Carl Craig,
Sexual Harrassment,
Harry Pussy,
The Gladiators,
Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion, Fluxion.
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.