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 Chad and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Hashim to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Grey Daturas,
Jeff Lynne,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-Ray Spex,
China Crisis,
Chrome,
Lou Reed,
Crash Course in Science,
Reuben Wilson,
The Slits,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tropical Tobacco,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mandrill,
New Order,
Das Ding,
Motorama,
Lebanon Hanover,
Inner City,
Maurizio,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Holt,
Absolute Body Control,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Green,
a-ha,
Nirvana,
Robert Wyatt,
Scratch Acid,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
In Retrospect,
Urselle,
Man Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
CMW,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gichy Dan,
JFA,
Robert Hood,
Amon Düül,
John Cale,
Fat Boys,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Moleskins,
The Vogues,
Kayak,
Barrington Levy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Connie Case,
Visage,
Angry Samoans,
Delon & Dalcan,
June of 44,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.