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 Romania and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skaos 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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Interpol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Dennis Brown,
Accadde A,
Animal Collective,
Traffic Nightmare,
PIL,
The Mojo Men,
the Normal,
Minor Threat,
MDC,
Tres Demented,
LL Cool J,
Bootsy Collins,
Kayak,
kango's stein massive,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lightning Bolt,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun Ra,
ABC,
Swell Maps,
The Velvet Underground,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Unrelated Segments,
Lindisfarne,
Model 500,
Roxy Music,
Yazoo,
Albert Ayler,
Joe Smooth,
Ronan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eurythmics,
Basic Channel,
10cc,
Altered Images,
Donny Hathaway,
Agitation Free,
Television Personalities,
Toni Rubio,
The Divine Comedy,
Jawbox,
The Dirtbombs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roger Hodgson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Soft Cell,
The United States of America,
Hardrive,
Wings,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ituana,
Erykah Badu,
Yusef Lateef,
Pet Shop Boys,
AZ,
The Fuzztones,
Deepchord,
Bill Wells,
Don Cherry,
Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar, Arab on Radar.
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.