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 Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 organ 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 Anthony Braxton to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Derrick Morgan,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dennis Brown,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jawbox,
Wolf Eyes,
John Foxx,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oneida,
The Blackbyrds,
Blancmange,
Duran Duran,
The Move,
Donny Hathaway,
Minor Threat,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lakeside,
John Cale,
The Techniques,
X-Ray Spex,
Altered Images,
Masters at Work,
Shuggie Otis,
Severed Heads,
Drive Like Jehu,
Radio Birdman,
Man Parrish,
The Saints,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pussy Galore,
Al Stewart,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Standells,
Average White Band,
Model 500,
Animal Collective,
Lalann,
The Happenings,
Whodini,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Section 25,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
London Community Gospel Choir,
AZ,
ABBA,
Roger Hodgson,
Arcadia,
Organ,
Aural Exciters,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker,
Joe Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Loose Ends,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.