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 Germany and from Portland.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia 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 Steve Hackett to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Pop Group. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Pulsallama,
Duran Duran,
Kaleidoscope,
One Last Wish,
Panda Bear,
Mandrill,
Jacob Miller,
The Pretty Things,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Tommy Roe,
Gang Green,
Faraquet,
Barbara Tucker,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Charles Mingus,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Lydon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Traffic Nightmare,
Erasure,
Minor Threat,
Pet Shop Boys,
T. Rex,
H. Thieme,
Arab on Radar,
Todd Rundgren,
Mad Mike,
Yaz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kerrie Biddell,
Outsiders,
Reuben Wilson,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
48th St. Collective,
Buzzcocks,
The J.B.'s,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-102,
Shoche,
The Invisible,
Jesper Dahlback,
Banda Bassotti,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Groovy Waters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ituana,
Bush Tetras,
Stereo Dub,
Harmonia,
KRS-One,
The Move,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Roxette,
Sly & The Family Stone,
CMW,
The Monochrome Set,
Model 500,
The Skatalites,
Magma,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.