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 Nauru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 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 Qualms to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Fugazi,
Agent Orange,
Marine Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Zapp,
One Last Wish,
Charles Mingus,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
Young Marble Giants,
Boz Scaggs,
Soft Machine,
Glenn Branca,
Mo-Dettes,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Terry,
Soft Cell,
The Walker Brothers,
The Neon Judgement,
Radio Birdman,
Steve Hackett,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Basic Channel,
Camberwell Now,
The Gun Club,
Mars,
Inner City,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Heaven 17,
UT,
Slave,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Wake,
Index,
Half Japanese,
The Kinks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bobby Womack,
Gang Gang Dance,
Hasil Adkins,
10cc,
New Order,
Magma,
Archie Shepp,
Arcadia,
Underground Resistance,
Jandek,
The Saints,
Janne Schatter,
X-101,
Essential Logic,
the Slits,
Black Flag,
Cal Tjader,
Bad Manners,
48th St. Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber 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.