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 Palau and from Seoul.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum 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 Rotary Connection to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Arab on Radar. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
Audionom,
The Standells,
Soft Machine,
Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Masters at Work,
The Saints,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
B.T. Express,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fortunes,
X-101,
David Axelrod,
The Durutti Column,
Quando Quango,
Trumans Water,
E-Dancer,
Nas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
James Chance & The Contortions,
John Lydon,
Magazine,
Sex Pistols,
The Fugs,
The Blues Magoos,
Wolf Eyes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Chris Corsano,
Nick Fraelich,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Faust,
Rites of Spring,
Ronnie Foster,
Absolute Body Control,
Grey Daturas,
Blancmange,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Godley & Creme,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Thompson Twins,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cure,
Scan 7,
The Associates,
Arab on Radar,
Archie Shepp,
Mary Jane Girls,
Terrestrial Tones,
Surgeon,
Lower 48,
Intrusion,
Scrapy,
Black Moon,
Tom Boy,
The Gories,
Wally Richardson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.