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 Oman and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sunsets and Hearts to the dance 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Pussy Galore,
Nico,
Cheater Slicks,
Audionom,
Faust,
The Cure,
Animal Collective,
The Red Krayola,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fortunes,
Magma,
Das Ding,
Jesper Dahlback,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Simply Red,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hashim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Knickerbockers,
X-101,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kurtis Blow,
Nick Fraelich,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
The Angels of Light,
Black Flag,
Crime,
Young Marble Giants,
Newcleus,
Jimmy McGriff,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Robert Hood,
Royal Trux,
Clear Light,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Moleskins,
Ralphi Rosario,
Q and Not U,
The Slits,
Lakeside,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Shadows of Knight,
In Retrospect,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pagans,
Jacob Miller,
Liliput,
Anakelly,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joyce Sims,
F. McDonald,
the Human League,
Lou Reed,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Adolescents,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Human League, The Human League, The Human League, The Human League.
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.