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 Ireland and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Spoonie Gee,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Neu!,
Sarah Menescal,
Leonard Cohen,
Bluetip,
Wings,
MC5,
The Barracudas,
Supertramp,
Sixth Finger,
Arcadia,
the Germs,
Scott Walker,
Bad Manners,
Suburban Knight,
The Fire Engines,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Searchers,
Livin' Joy,
Iggy Pop,
Au Pairs,
Jandek,
the Soft Cell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Dave Gahan,
Easy Going,
Thompson Twins,
The Remains,
Crooked Eye,
David Axelrod,
John Holt,
Reagan Youth,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Divine Comedy,
Lindisfarne,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Toni Rubio,
Funky Four + One,
Nik Kershaw,
10cc,
Scan 7,
Grey Daturas,
Robert Hood,
Flamin' Groovies,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Robert Görl,
Marc Almond,
Excepter,
The Standells,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
H. Thieme,
Stereo Dub,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Moleskins,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.