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 Macedonia and from London.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Wake to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Spoonie Gee record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Buckinghams,
Eurythmics,
10cc,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Television,
Peter & Gordon,
Bobby Womack,
Glambeats Corp.,
Duran Duran,
New Order,
Ronan,
Television Personalities,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Seeds,
Au Pairs,
Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
Ohio Players,
Cheater Slicks,
The Misunderstood,
Angry Samoans,
Lyres,
Fat Boys,
Eli Mardock,
Essential Logic,
Scrapy,
Arab on Radar,
Kerrie Biddell,
Icehouse,
Urselle,
Fluxion,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bluetip,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Radiohead,
Erykah Badu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pussy Galore,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
This Heat,
Ultra Naté,
Dave Gahan,
Hasil Adkins,
Goldenarms,
Yazoo,
The Cowsills,
Dorothy Ashby,
Robert Görl,
Gang of Four,
Derrick May,
Eric Copeland,
Eric Dolphy,
Soulsonic Force,
Soul II Soul,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Simply Red,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.