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 United States and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Cheater Slicks to the rock 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Gap Band,
Dual Sessions,
Delta 5,
Brick,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scientists,
The Tremeloes,
Tom Boy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doobie Brothers,
Intrusion,
Negative Approach,
Accadde A,
Television,
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
Barbara Tucker,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nas,
Lungfish,
The Skatalites,
OOIOO,
Minnie Riperton,
The Busters,
Buzzcocks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Suburban Knight,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Boredoms,
The Mojo Men,
Thee Headcoats,
Altered Images,
ABBA,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soft Cell,
Neil Young,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Stiv Bators,
Roy Ayers,
Animal Collective,
The Blues Magoos,
James White and The Blacks,
Eli Mardock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mission of Burma,
T. Rex,
Black Bananas,
the Germs,
The Fall,
X-102,
Mars,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Buckinghams,
The Blackbyrds,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Minny Pops,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.