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 India and from Woodstock.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Banda Bassotti to the grime 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Neil Young,
Peter & Gordon,
Minnie Riperton,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
The Blackbyrds,
Albert Ayler,
The Leaves,
Skriet,
The Count Five,
Heaven 17,
Deepchord,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ultravox,
cv313,
Adolescents,
These Immortal Souls,
Johnny Osbourne,
Matthew Halsall,
Mark Hollis,
The Stooges,
JFA,
The Walker Brothers,
Pulsallama,
Erasure,
Von Mondo,
ABBA,
Aaron Thompson,
Angry Samoans,
Buzzcocks,
The Techniques,
Rod Modell,
Jacob Miller,
Black Flag,
Easy Going,
Jeff Lynne,
Urselle,
the Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cheater Slicks,
Aural Exciters,
Pylon,
Blossom Toes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Panda Bear,
Y Pants,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sonics,
Graham Central Station,
Franke,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
Nico,
Loose Ends,
Monks,
Young Marble Giants,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.