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 Palau and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 spring reverb 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 Barbara Tucker to the dance 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Whodini,
Wally Richardson,
Intrusion,
The Slits,
Susan Cadogan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nico,
Interpol,
Von Mondo,
Mars,
Average White Band,
Deakin,
Traffic Nightmare,
Joe Smooth,
Tomorrow,
a-ha,
Heaven 17,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Motorama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Radiohead,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camberwell Now,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Amon Düül,
Iggy Pop,
Ultra Naté,
Leonard Cohen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alice Coltrane,
Eric B and Rakim,
The American Breed,
Bad Manners,
Minny Pops,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aural Exciters,
Depeche Mode,
Ten City,
Schoolly D,
Con Funk Shun,
Girls At Our Best!,
Echospace,
Y Pants,
Electric Prunes,
JFA,
Lindisfarne,
Aswad,
Roxy Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Absolute Body Control,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jawbox,
Khruangbin,
Main Source,
Prince Buster,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lou Christie,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.