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 Estonia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Terry Callier to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Real Kids,
Arcadia,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Hill,
Gichy Dan,
Funkadelic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Rakim,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Unwound,
Interpol,
Oblivians,
Zapp,
Harmonia,
Technova,
Underground Resistance,
Rotary Connection,
Lindisfarne,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Pretty Things,
Pylon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
Mantronix,
Gerry Rafferty,
Quadrant,
The Cowsills,
Dawn Penn,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Steve Hackett,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Doobie Brothers,
Crooked Eye,
New Order,
8 Eyed Spy,
a-ha,
Tomorrow,
Roger Hodgson,
The Modern Lovers,
Rekid,
Derrick Morgan,
Au Pairs,
Shoche,
Ponytail,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Slackers,
Liliput,
Spoonie Gee,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Hoover,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Morten Harket,
Bobby Womack,
T. Rex,
The Remains,
Archie Shepp,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.