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 South Sudan and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Black Sheep to the rock 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The American Breed,
Little Man,
Spoonie Gee,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Al Stewart,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Move,
Agitation Free,
The Saints,
Suburban Knight,
The Alarm Clocks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Five Americans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Alice Coltrane,
Fad Gadget,
Yaz,
Tomorrow,
Duran Duran,
Symarip,
Ponytail,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül,
Angry Samoans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Panda Bear,
Rhythm & Sound,
Newcleus,
David Bowie,
Black Bananas,
Magazine,
Basic Channel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Minny Pops,
Soulsonic Force,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Morten Harket,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Hill,
Aural Exciters,
The Dead C,
Rakim,
The Music Machine,
Echospace,
Wings,
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
Lakeside,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Magma,
La Düsseldorf,
Make Up,
Fugazi,
Crooked Eye,
U.S. Maple,
Dual Sessions,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.