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 Norway and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet 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 The Divine Comedy to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Duran Duran,
The Wake,
David Axelrod,
Absolute Body Control,
Funkadelic,
the Sonics,
Tim Buckley,
Parry Music,
Kenny Larkin,
Drexciya,
Robert Görl,
Fluxion,
Minutemen,
The Neon Judgement,
Alphaville,
Prince Buster,
The Raincoats,
Rekid,
Camouflage,
Thompson Twins,
Roy Ayers,
Q65,
Maurizio,
cv313,
Funky Four + One,
Fela Kuti,
Slave,
Aaron Thompson,
Faust,
Neil Young,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cramps,
Country Teasers,
Ponytail,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Music Machine,
Cybotron,
Franke,
U.S. Maple,
Fad Gadget,
Aloha Tigers,
The New Christs,
Outsiders,
Monolake,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slackers,
The Index,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sister Nancy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Peter & Gordon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
June of 44,
Minor Threat,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Oneida,
Agent Orange,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mission of Burma,
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.