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 Somalia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar 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 K-Klass to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Index. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Vogues,
Sonny Sharrock,
Porter Ricks,
Faust,
Ultravox,
The Fugs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Circle Jerks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Oneida,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dennis Brown,
A Certain Ratio,
Dawn Penn,
Marine Girls,
10cc,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Byrd,
Iggy Pop,
Easy Going,
Funkadelic,
H. Thieme,
Frankie Knuckles,
Wire,
Pulsallama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Flipper,
Erasure,
Barclay James Harvest,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Von Mondo,
The Fuzztones,
The United States of America,
Khruangbin,
The Raincoats,
Neu!,
The Names,
The Searchers,
The Beau Brummels,
Yellowson,
The Walker Brothers,
The Human League,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
Sonic Youth,
Alton Ellis,
Reagan Youth,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Invisible,
Pere Ubu,
Severed Heads,
John Holt,
Roy Ayers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rod Modell,
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.