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 Bolivia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mexico City.
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 spring reverb 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 Sugar Minott to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Desert Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
Eli Mardock,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxy Music,
Arthur Verocai,
Average White Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Fela Kuti,
X-101,
Swell Maps,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Minnie Riperton,
Al Stewart,
kango's stein massive,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Amon Düül II,
Faust,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultravox,
X-Ray Spex,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sly & The Family Stone,
cv313,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Blancmange,
Whodini,
Howard Jones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Pus,
Duran Duran,
Marc Almond,
Desert Stars,
X-102,
Ossler,
The Knickerbockers,
The United States of America,
Darondo,
Flipper,
Urselle,
Gabor Szabo,
Moebius,
New York Dolls,
Black Bananas,
Tomorrow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Popol Vuh,
Buzzcocks,
48th St. Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aural Exciters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Agent Orange,
The Offenders,
Ludus,
Jeff Lynne,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.