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 Guyana and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Franke to the dance 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 The Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Babytalk,
Danielle Patucci,
Judy Mowatt,
Camberwell Now,
Dark Day,
Darondo,
Fat Boys,
DJ Style,
Spandau Ballet,
The Skatalites,
Throbbing Gristle,
New York Dolls,
Skarface,
The Birthday Party,
Cal Tjader,
The Leaves,
The Trojans,
Massinfluence,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sex Pistols,
Ohio Players,
The Pop Group,
Rites of Spring,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Prunes,
Clear Light,
Rod Modell,
Nick Fraelich,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Erasure,
The Selecter,
Quadrant,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slackers,
Barrington Levy,
The Tremeloes,
The Red Krayola,
Flipper,
Scion,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Kinks,
Stereo Dub,
Lucky Dragons,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Gun Club,
Crash Course in Science,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Groovy Waters,
Pierre Henry,
Black Pus,
The Five Americans,
World's Most,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Patti Smith,
The Electric Prunes,
Simply Red,
Lightning Bolt,
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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.