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 Cyprus and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Five Americans to the rap 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lindisfarne,
Spoonie Gee,
Kas Product,
Cheater Slicks,
Soft Machine,
The Moody Blues,
Ossler,
Crash Course in Science,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric Dolphy,
Cybotron,
Alice Coltrane,
Jerry's Kids,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Junior Murvin,
Skarface,
Motorama,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gun Club,
Flipper,
The Motions,
Blossom Toes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Simply Red,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Quando Quango,
Mark Hollis,
Rotary Connection,
Scan 7,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Half Japanese,
Roxy Music,
Tomorrow,
Subhumans,
Guru Guru,
Monolake,
The Knickerbockers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bill Wells,
Peter & Gordon,
Byron Stingily,
The Count Five,
Saccharine Trust,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crime,
10cc,
The Stooges,
Panda Bear,
Sam Rivers,
Fela Kuti,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Neil Young,
The Happenings,
Drexciya,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Selecter,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.