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 South Sudan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Von Mondo to the rock 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Music Machine,
Inner City,
The Misunderstood,
Stetsasonic,
The Slits,
Nico,
Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Mandrill,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Sneak,
Skaos,
The Stooges,
Ralphi Rosario,
Unrelated Segments,
The Knickerbockers,
Swell Maps,
Deadbeat,
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thee Headcoats,
Second Layer,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Monks,
Sun Ra,
Excepter,
The Black Dice,
Wasted Youth,
OOIOO,
Reuben Wilson,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Yazoo,
Flash Fearless,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thompson Twins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Flipper,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Don Cherry,
The American Breed,
Jeff Mills,
Kool Moe Dee,
Todd Terry,
The Cramps,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Jacques Brel,
Anakelly,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roxy Music,
Crime,
Banda Bassotti,
Roy Ayers,
The Fire Engines,
The Index,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ohio Players,
Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk, Babytalk.
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.