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 Tajikistan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
The Five Americans,
Sexual Harrassment,
Alice Coltrane,
Zapp,
Rufus Thomas,
The Beau Brummels,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick Morgan,
Youth Brigade,
Glambeats Corp.,
Darondo,
Average White Band,
Slave,
The Music Machine,
Wings,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kas Product,
Eurythmics,
Girls At Our Best!,
Radio Birdman,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gories,
Morten Harket,
Ponytail,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Swell Maps,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
Gang of Four,
Bluetip,
Lyres,
Patti Smith,
Rites of Spring,
Hardrive,
Kayak,
A Certain Ratio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Derrick May,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Dave Clark Five,
Siglo XX,
The Names,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cymande,
The Monochrome Set,
Scan 7,
Monks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Association,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Busters,
T.S.O.L.,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Detroit Cobras,
The New Christs,
The Techniques,
Reagan Youth,
Boz Scaggs,
Nirvana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yusef Lateef,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.