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 Palau and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Pussy Galore to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Jeff Lynne,
Godley & Creme,
Tres Demented,
Prince Buster,
Urselle,
The Slackers,
Sparks,
Amon Düül II,
The Barracudas,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
48th St. Collective,
Pylon,
Tubeway Army,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bang On A Can,
Johnny Osbourne,
Shuggie Otis,
Bush Tetras,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Girls At Our Best!,
World's Most,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Misunderstood,
La Düsseldorf,
Maurizio,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fire Engines,
The Doors,
James White and The Blacks,
Bob Dylan,
The Evens,
Aswad,
Blossom Toes,
Piero Umiliani,
Kenny Larkin,
Stereo Dub,
The Fugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Hoover,
B.T. Express,
Oneida,
ABBA,
Panda Bear,
Gong,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Machine,
Terry Callier,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bronski Beat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sandy B,
Erykah Badu,
Aural Exciters,
OOIOO,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.
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.