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 Andorra and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron 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 Soft Cell to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All R.M.O. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Khruangbin,
Flash Fearless,
Man Parrish,
Faraquet,
Kurtis Blow,
Deakin,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thee Headcoats,
The Sound,
Girls At Our Best!,
Michelle Simonal,
Tears for Fears,
Au Pairs,
Henry Cow,
Blossom Toes,
Nick Fraelich,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cluster,
The Offenders,
The Buckinghams,
The Searchers,
Avey Tare,
The Walker Brothers,
Letta Mbulu,
Sound Behaviour,
Young Marble Giants,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Evens,
Fluxion,
Silicon Teens,
Sällskapet,
The Sonics,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bobby Womack,
Quantec,
Smog,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Godley & Creme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
China Crisis,
Roy Ayers,
Moebius,
kango's stein massive,
DNA,
Juan Atkins,
Reuben Wilson,
The Kinks,
Ultravox,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Can,
The United States of America,
Ludus,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Marmalade,
Ralphi Rosario,
ABC,
The New Christs,
The Monks,
Grey Daturas,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.