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 Afghanistan and from Taipei.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Soul Sonic Force to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Judy Mowatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Technova,
Derrick Morgan,
Grey Daturas,
Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jerry Gold Smith,
Reagan Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rekid,
Gabor Szabo,
Second Layer,
Judy Mowatt,
Dark Day,
Underground Resistance,
Gang Gang Dance,
Sällskapet,
Freddie Wadling,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Chris & Cosey,
Lightning Bolt,
The New Christs,
Lungfish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bluetip,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terrestrial Tones,
Donald Byrd,
Josef K,
The Smoke,
Boz Scaggs,
Wasted Youth,
The Evens,
Steve Hackett,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Litter,
The Fugs,
Moby Grape,
Cameo,
Eddi Front,
Kenny Larkin,
Scan 7,
Brand Nubian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric Dolphy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marc Almond,
Eden Ahbez,
Bad Manners,
Connie Case,
Echospace,
Organ,
Aural Exciters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Adolescents,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.