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 Sudan and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Holger Czukay 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 The Grass Roots to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Janne Schatter. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Little Man,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minny Pops,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Moss Icon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jacques Brel,
Stereo Dub,
Lyres,
Fluxion,
Cheater Slicks,
L. Decosne,
Index,
Anthony Braxton,
David Axelrod,
Inner City,
Pierre Henry,
Alphaville,
Flash Fearless,
Animal Collective,
Lucky Dragons,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
AZ,
The Gun Club,
X-101,
Icehouse,
Barbara Tucker,
Agitation Free,
Janne Schatter,
Organ,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lightning Bolt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Electric Prunes,
Tommy Roe,
Das Ding,
Zero Boys,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nirvana,
Camouflage,
The Happenings,
Accadde A,
Al Stewart,
DNA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soft Cell,
Flipper,
the Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
The New Christs,
48th St. Collective,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Donny Hathaway,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fugs,
Lungfish,
Panda Bear,
Slave,
Boredoms,
New York Dolls,
Young Marble Giants,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.