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 Iran and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Nation of Ulysses to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Stereo Dub,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Leonard Cohen,
Pantaleimon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Siglo XX,
The Misunderstood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erasure,
Ultravox,
The Invisible,
The Flesh Eaters,
Circle Jerks,
Pagans,
Altered Images,
Traffic Nightmare,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joey Negro,
Country Teasers,
The Slackers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Gories,
Zapp,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Doors,
Drive Like Jehu,
U.S. Maple,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
The United States of America,
Minny Pops,
Fatback Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Janne Schatter,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric Dolphy,
Henry Cow,
Mr. Review,
Parry Music,
Roxette,
The Fall,
Cybotron,
Ituana,
The Black Dice,
Toni Rubio,
Alice Coltrane,
Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ralphi Rosario,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bang On A Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Terry,
Groovy Waters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kurtis Blow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.