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 Sierra Leone and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 organ 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 MC5 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
Cheater Slicks,
Cybotron,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ludus,
Joe Finger,
Gabor Szabo,
The Saints,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tomorrow,
Ohio Players,
U.S. Maple,
Boz Scaggs,
Robert Görl,
Television Personalities,
Basic Channel,
Aaron Thompson,
The Count Five,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yazoo,
the Swans,
Massinfluence,
Letta Mbulu,
Porter Ricks,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Sneak,
Shuggie Otis,
Pantaleimon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deakin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Liliput,
Don Cherry,
Clear Light,
John Cale,
Dead Boys,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Slick Rick,
Sugar Minott,
The Neon Judgement,
Lou Reed,
48th St. Collective,
Nik Kershaw,
The Index,
The Human League,
Pagans,
Suburban Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Victims,
Delta 5,
Black Moon,
Steve Hackett,
Amon Düül,
Pharoah Sanders,
Oblivians,
It's A Beautiful Day,
OOIOO,
Bizarre Inc.,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.