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 Belarus and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 güiro 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 The Mummies to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lakeside,
The Moleskins,
Shuggie Otis,
Girls At Our Best!,
Guru Guru,
Lindisfarne,
Peter and Kerry,
Gong,
Stiv Bators,
Sister Nancy,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Audionom,
Barbara Tucker,
Darondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lalo Schifrin,
China Crisis,
Youth Brigade,
Quadrant,
MDC,
The Shadows of Knight,
Gabor Szabo,
Roger Hodgson,
Freddie Wadling,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kevin Saunderson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mandrill,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fuzztones,
Rapeman,
Make Up,
Fear,
Amon Düül,
Ken Boothe,
Altered Images,
Eurythmics,
Derrick Morgan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Barracudas,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Qualms,
Aural Exciters,
the Swans,
The Monochrome Set,
Can,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Skriet,
X-Ray Spex,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobbi Humphrey,
World's Most,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Cluster, Cluster, Cluster, Cluster.
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.