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 Kosovo and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Leonard Cohen to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Bluetip,
Minnie Riperton,
Unrelated Segments,
Lakeside,
Ohio Players,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Scientists,
Black Moon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ultimate Spinach,
Boredoms,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Knickerbockers,
Hashim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Marvin Gaye,
B.T. Express,
Fad Gadget,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Spoonie Gee,
Moby Grape,
The Cure,
Faraquet,
Crash Course in Science,
Technova,
John Cale,
Procol Harum,
Alton Ellis,
Marine Girls,
The Buckinghams,
Sugar Minott,
Robert Wyatt,
cv313,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Terry Callier,
Mantronix,
Roy Ayers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Robert Görl,
The Fuzztones,
Japan,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Duran Duran,
Bobby Sherman,
Blake Baxter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Excepter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Harmonia,
Youth Brigade,
MDC,
Echospace,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang Green,
Quando Quango,
Yaz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.