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 Iran and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Madrid.
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 snare 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 Scrapy to the rap 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Gabor Szabo,
CMW,
Erykah Badu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultravox,
Alphaville,
Donny Hathaway,
Letta Mbulu,
Moebius,
The Invisible,
Massinfluence,
The Litter,
Essential Logic,
The Martian,
David Bowie,
Anthony Braxton,
Icehouse,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tres Demented,
Althea and Donna,
Jacques Brel,
Clear Light,
The Fortunes,
The Motions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Harry Pussy,
Drive Like Jehu,
June of 44,
Junior Murvin,
Al Stewart,
Scan 7,
Delta 5,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Throbbing Gristle,
Camberwell Now,
Organ,
Reuben Wilson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Second Layer,
Rosa Yemen,
ABC,
Boz Scaggs,
Deakin,
Circle Jerks,
T.S.O.L.,
Barry Ungar,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeff Mills,
Ken Boothe,
The Remains,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Underground Resistance,
Man Parrish,
Bob Dylan,
The Velvet Underground,
Kerri Chandler,
Amon Düül II,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Young Rascals,
Harmonia,
The Neon Judgement,
Eve St. Jones,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.