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 Armenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Beijing.
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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Talk Talk to the grime 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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
The Saints,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jimmy McGriff,
Basic Channel,
Ken Boothe,
This Heat,
Leonard Cohen,
Aloha Tigers,
Scion,
The Moleskins,
the Soft Cell,
Icehouse,
Blancmange,
Agent Orange,
The Busters,
Fad Gadget,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lalann,
Danielle Patucci,
The Zeros,
In Retrospect,
Kayak,
Quantec,
Spandau Ballet,
Gichy Dan,
Colin Newman,
Vladislav Delay,
Skarface,
Lungfish,
Bad Manners,
Warsaw,
Bob Dylan,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
The Smoke,
Don Cherry,
James White and The Blacks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
AZ,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ornette Coleman,
Maurizio,
Judy Mowatt,
Matthew Halsall,
Bronski Beat,
Pagans,
the Normal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Seeds,
The Durutti Column,
Darondo,
Wings,
Fela Kuti,
Buzzcocks,
The Mighty Diamonds,
kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive, kango's stein massive.
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.