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 Fiji and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Darondo to the jazz 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Stooges,
Main Source,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ken Boothe,
Reuben Wilson,
T. Rex,
The Smoke,
Bobby Womack,
The Victims,
John Lydon,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Alison Limerick,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Country Joe & The Fish,
D'Angelo,
The Music Machine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Star Department,
Stiv Bators,
Judy Mowatt,
Flipper,
Marc Almond,
Babytalk,
Joy Division,
The Red Krayola,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sister Nancy,
Scion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Depeche Mode,
Rekid,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Supertramp,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Young Marble Giants,
Johnny Clarke,
Swans,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jerry's Kids,
Hardrive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
The Names,
Severed Heads,
Liliput,
The American Breed,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Halsall,
Nik Kershaw,
Livin' Joy,
The Monks,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.