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 Australia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 B.T. Express to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Zeros,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tommy Roe,
the Slits,
The Mojo Men,
Tropical Tobacco,
Stockholm Monsters,
China Crisis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Visage,
Mantronix,
The Martian,
Popol Vuh,
Kayak,
Wasted Youth,
Los Fastidios,
Harmonia,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gastr Del Sol,
Youth Brigade,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dave Gahan,
Young Marble Giants,
Supertramp,
The Leaves,
Eric Copeland,
Anakelly,
Alphaville,
Altered Images,
Scan 7,
Kevin Saunderson,
Byron Stingily,
Black Bananas,
Groovy Waters,
Hardrive,
Tubeway Army,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oblivians,
Eric Dolphy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Desert Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jawbox,
The J.B.'s,
These Immortal Souls,
Althea and Donna,
Deadbeat,
The American Breed,
Angry Samoans,
Funkadelic,
Warsaw,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Anthony Braxton,
Mandrill,
Nas,
Von Mondo,
The Gories,
The Vogues,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.