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 Hungary and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in 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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 marimba 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 Pagans to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Alphaville tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
Aaron Thompson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Popol Vuh,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Red Krayola,
X-102,
Main Source,
Rotary Connection,
The Gladiators,
Roxette,
Anakelly,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Slackers,
Black Sheep,
Schoolly D,
Minny Pops,
Man Eating Sloth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Smog,
D'Angelo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bluetip,
Excepter,
Khruangbin,
John Foxx,
The Velvet Underground,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Silicon Teens,
Lightning Bolt,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
Little Man,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Index,
Neil Young,
The Pop Group,
Niagra,
Bobby Sherman,
Flash Fearless,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Joy Division,
Kurtis Blow,
Eric Copeland,
Animal Collective,
John Holt,
Josef K,
Radiohead,
Howard Jones,
Accadde A,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Minnie Riperton,
Brass Construction,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
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.