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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Michael McDonald 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 David Axelrod to the dance 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
Bad Manners,
Erasure,
Matthew Halsall,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fat Boys,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Janne Schatter,
CMW,
Ken Boothe,
Pantytec,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ohio Players,
Maleditus Sound,
Scion,
Hot Snakes,
Radiohead,
OOIOO,
Cal Tjader,
Soulsonic Force,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cramps,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Charles Mingus,
Joensuu 1685,
Das Ding,
Unrelated Segments,
Unwound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dave Gahan,
Sällskapet,
The Move,
Boredoms,
D'Angelo,
Quadrant,
The Busters,
The Count Five,
New Order,
Sex Pistols,
Visage,
Fear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Gories,
Monks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Durutti Column,
Scientists,
Metal Thangz,
Kaleidoscope,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eric Dolphy,
Stetsasonic,
Zero Boys,
Moebius,
Marc Almond,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.