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 Egypt and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 David Bowie 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 ABBA to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Laurel Aitken,
Fear,
EPMD,
Harmonia,
Thee Headcoats,
Sight & Sound,
Faraquet,
Au Pairs,
The Pretty Things,
Moss Icon,
Youth Brigade,
Peter & Gordon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amon Düül II,
Avey Tare,
The Real Kids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Grass Roots,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mark Hollis,
Masters at Work,
Cybotron,
Arthur Verocai,
Newcleus,
Pylon,
Kayak,
Brick,
Half Japanese,
Kas Product,
Rekid,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Quadrant,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker,
Hoover,
Inner City,
Metal Thangz,
the Swans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Judy Mowatt,
Motorama,
Gichy Dan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jacob Miller,
Black Flag,
Roxette,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fuzztones,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Von Mondo,
Joey Negro,
The Human League,
Simply Red,
Spandau Ballet,
Popol Vuh,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.