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 Comoros and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 Dave Gahan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thompson Twins 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
The Saints,
Average White Band,
Tom Boy,
Icehouse,
Cameo,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Severed Heads,
Ituana,
Robert Wyatt,
Anakelly,
Nas,
Kerri Chandler,
Pharoah Sanders,
Shuggie Otis,
U.S. Maple,
Maurizio,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joe Smooth,
Vladislav Delay,
Anthony Braxton,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Five Americans,
Minor Threat,
Moss Icon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gabor Szabo,
Freddie Wadling,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Yaz,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thee Headcoats,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soul Sonic Force,
Aural Exciters,
The Leaves,
Circle Jerks,
the Normal,
Eddi Front,
The Sonics,
Agitation Free,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Residents,
Joy Division,
Technova,
KRS-One,
Electric Prunes,
The Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Smog,
Lalann,
Crispian St. Peters,
Symarip,
Eurythmics,
June of 44,
The Velvet Underground,
Mandrill,
Neu!,
Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket, Morten Harket.
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.