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 Armenia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Blake Baxter to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Beau Brummels. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Graham Central Station record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
The Golliwogs,
Dark Day,
Laurel Aitken,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roy Ayers,
Eurythmics,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalann,
Oneida,
Guru Guru,
Suicide,
Grey Daturas,
Freddie Wadling,
Surgeon,
A Certain Ratio,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
John Lydon,
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Motorama,
Robert Hood,
Khruangbin,
Junior Murvin,
Derrick May,
Yaz,
Qualms,
Mission of Burma,
Kaleidoscope,
Amon Düül II,
Soul Sonic Force,
Adolescents,
DJ Sneak,
The Move,
The Angels of Light,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
Blancmange,
Donald Byrd,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Pierre Henry,
Mark Hollis,
The Slits,
The New Christs,
Bronski Beat,
The Flesh Eaters,
Roger Hodgson,
Zapp,
DNA,
Stockholm Monsters,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric B and Rakim,
Bad Manners,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Evens,
Danielle Patucci,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.