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 Paris.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the punk 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Ronnie Foster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sound Behaviour,
Andrew Hill,
New York Dolls,
Sonic Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
kango's stein massive,
Ronan,
Vainqueur,
Blossom Toes,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobby Sherman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Little Man,
UT,
Marshall Jefferson,
Moby Grape,
Barrington Levy,
The Velvet Underground,
Letta Mbulu,
The Birthday Party,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Barry Ungar,
Altered Images,
FM Einheit,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Dennis Brown,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Walker Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Hot Snakes,
a-ha,
The Young Rascals,
Ultravox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Monks,
The Fugs,
Index,
New Age Steppers,
Parry Music,
The Index,
Don Cherry,
ABBA,
The Sonics,
Half Japanese,
Rites of Spring,
Audionom,
Morten Harket,
Joy Division,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Bananas,
The Selecter,
The Moleskins,
Livin' Joy,
Josef K,
Carl Craig,
Mandrill,
Chris Corsano,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.