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 Indonesia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 Ponytail to the jazz 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Godley & Creme,
Judy Mowatt,
Freddie Wadling,
Steve Hackett,
Delta 5,
Todd Rundgren,
Peter & Gordon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Thompson Twins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alison Limerick,
Scan 7,
The Tremeloes,
The Electric Prunes,
Pantytec,
The Cramps,
Max Romeo,
Altered Images,
Wally Richardson,
Spandau Ballet,
Fela Kuti,
Loose Ends,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Albert Ayler,
Don Cherry,
Pulsallama,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Minnie Riperton,
Sam Rivers,
Dead Boys,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Metal Thangz,
Graham Central Station,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scion,
ABBA,
Absolute Body Control,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Move,
Danielle Patucci,
X-Ray Spex,
Marc Almond,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Minutemen,
Patti Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rites of Spring,
Qualms,
The Doors,
Stereo Dub,
Bush Tetras,
MC5,
Ornette Coleman,
the Soft Cell,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.