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 Andorra and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Taipei.
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 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 Delta 5 to the grunge 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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Smog,
Nik Kershaw,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blossom Toes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Subhumans,
Harpers Bizarre,
Angry Samoans,
U.S. Maple,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Arcadia,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Alice Coltrane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
B.T. Express,
Rod Modell,
Byron Stingily,
The Gories,
Barry Ungar,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Derrick May,
Siglo XX,
Pierre Henry,
The Red Krayola,
David McCallum,
Urselle,
Masters at Work,
Suicide,
The Offenders,
The Pretty Things,
The Cure,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Minor Threat,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Wolf Eyes,
The Fall,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Thompson Twins,
Technova,
The Skatalites,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Scratch Acid,
June Days,
the Human League,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
The Kinks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
One Last Wish,
Aswad,
Ultra Naté,
New York Dolls,
Kenny Larkin,
China Crisis,
Dead Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Names,
Buzzcocks,
Massinfluence,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.