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 Tanzania and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Smog to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Index,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Danielle Patucci,
Massinfluence,
Babytalk,
Guru Guru,
Amon Düül II,
Qualms,
The Stooges,
Newcleus,
Das Ding,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Warren Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
Yusef Lateef,
This Heat,
Mantronix,
Kurtis Blow,
The Smiths,
Be Bop Deluxe,
New Age Steppers,
Anakelly,
Hot Snakes,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Blancmange,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nils Olav,
ABC,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Make Up,
The Toasters,
The Divine Comedy,
Schoolly D,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Television,
Motorama,
Lyres,
Jawbox,
Franke,
Stetsasonic,
Quadrant,
Godley & Creme,
Negative Approach,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jacob Miller,
Soft Machine,
David Bowie,
Charles Mingus,
Marvin Gaye,
Heaven 17,
T. Rex,
Davy DMX,
Fatback Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sam Rivers,
Kayak,
Japan,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.