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 Tunisia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Calgary.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rotary Connection to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grauzone,
Heaven 17,
Main Source,
Quando Quango,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Monks,
Swans,
Gang Starr,
Wings,
Barrington Levy,
Iggy Pop,
the Association,
Malaria!,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick Morgan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stiv Bators,
Hot Snakes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stetsasonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nick Fraelich,
the Soft Cell,
Pylon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lindisfarne,
Brick,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fugazi,
Skriet,
The Velvet Underground,
Schoolly D,
Brothers Johnson,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Sherman,
The Fugs,
Steve Hackett,
Stereo Dub,
Kerri Chandler,
Soft Machine,
The Motions,
AZ,
ABC,
Minny Pops,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Fat Boys,
Marc Almond,
John Lydon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cal Tjader,
Jeff Mills,
Urselle,
Leonard Cohen,
Nico,
Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes, Larry & the Blue Notes.
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.