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 Ireland and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Barbara Tucker to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
In Retrospect,
Television Personalities,
Mad Mike,
The Gories,
Reagan Youth,
Jawbox,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soulsonic Force,
Mars,
Radio Birdman,
The Gladiators,
Kurtis Blow,
Porter Ricks,
The Durutti Column,
Alton Ellis,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
The Monochrome Set,
John Holt,
Bob Dylan,
MDC,
H. Thieme,
Toni Rubio,
Arthur Verocai,
Grey Daturas,
The Velvet Underground,
Inner City,
Jacques Brel,
Arab on Radar,
Ituana,
Barclay James Harvest,
Los Fastidios,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blossom Toes,
Von Mondo,
Unrelated Segments,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Scientists,
Gang of Four,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Sarah Menescal,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lindisfarne,
Model 500,
Spoonie Gee,
LL Cool J,
The Walker Brothers,
Banda Bassotti,
Godley & Creme,
U.S. Maple,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Massinfluence,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.