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 Malta and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin 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 Urselle to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neil Young. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare 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 synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Eric Dolphy,
Cybotron,
The Star Department,
Parry Music,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Buckinghams,
Minny Pops,
Pylon,
The American Breed,
Icehouse,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Monks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Thee Headcoats,
Sonic Youth,
Max Romeo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joey Negro,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Moleskins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Visage,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiohead,
Yazoo,
Yellowson,
Aural Exciters,
Blake Baxter,
Shoche,
The Divine Comedy,
Accadde A,
Michelle Simonal,
Silicon Teens,
Scan 7,
Tim Buckley,
T.S.O.L.,
Au Pairs,
Kas Product,
The Golliwogs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Grey Daturas,
Erykah Badu,
Grauzone,
Television,
Wasted Youth,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soulsonic Force,
Marcia Griffiths,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Godley & Creme,
Simply Red,
New York Dolls,
Marmalade,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.