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 Malta and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Barry Ungar to the grime 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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
Piero Umiliani,
Terry Callier,
Audionom,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Model 500,
Jerry's Kids,
Tom Boy,
Roxy Music,
The Grass Roots,
Can,
Unrelated Segments,
Letta Mbulu,
Lower 48,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Franke,
Cybotron,
a-ha,
Minny Pops,
Ituana,
Crispy Ambulance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The United States of America,
Monolake,
Q65,
Henry Cow,
Roxette,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
These Immortal Souls,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oblivians,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crime,
Flipper,
Funkadelic,
New York Dolls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Seeds,
Godley & Creme,
Minor Threat,
Animal Collective,
Barbara Tucker,
Khruangbin,
Nils Olav,
Charles Mingus,
Lalann,
Brass Construction,
World's Most,
Dual Sessions,
Peter and Kerry,
Joy Division,
Erasure,
The Saints,
Pierre Henry,
Morten Harket,
Japan,
The Doors,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABBA,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.