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 Lebanon and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Barbara Tucker to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gerry Rafferty,
The Zeros,
Dorothy Ashby,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Tubeway Army,
Pharoah Sanders,
Black Pus,
The Monks,
Von Mondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
cv313,
Sound Behaviour,
The Misunderstood,
Graham Central Station,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cure,
The Real Kids,
Ituana,
Underground Resistance,
Kas Product,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Minor Threat,
Thompson Twins,
Magazine,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Colin Newman,
Ronnie Foster,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
Crash Course in Science,
Zero Boys,
Cameo,
Electric Prunes,
Morten Harket,
Dual Sessions,
LL Cool J,
Don Cherry,
Rakim,
The Blackbyrds,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Jeru the Damaja,
Schoolly D,
X-101,
Sällskapet,
Eric Dolphy,
The Slackers,
Yusef Lateef,
The Pop Group,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Todd Rundgren,
Anthony Braxton,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.