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 India and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro 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 Little Man to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a U.S. Maple record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Judy Mowatt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Graham Central Station,
Organ,
Agitation Free,
Ornette Coleman,
Kaleidoscope,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
China Crisis,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mark Hollis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Grey Daturas,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Oblivians,
Ken Boothe,
Godley & Creme,
Derrick May,
Roxette,
Das Ding,
Sällskapet,
Schoolly D,
Eden Ahbez,
Hardrive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Man Eating Sloth,
DJ Sneak,
Bobby Byrd,
Avey Tare,
Easy Going,
Crispian St. Peters,
K-Klass,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Slackers,
Sun City Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Sherman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Howard Jones,
The Kinks,
Warren Ellis,
Peter & Gordon,
The Move,
Goldenarms,
The Pop Group,
Funkadelic,
The Martian,
Popol Vuh,
Soul II Soul,
Pere Ubu,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Index,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cameo,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.