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 Kenya and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Average White Band to the grunge 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX 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?
Nils Olav,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Trumans Water,
Funkadelic,
The Tremeloes,
Urselle,
The Beau Brummels,
The Selecter,
Dark Day,
Stiv Bators,
David Axelrod,
Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Sonny Sharrock,
Judy Mowatt,
Country Teasers,
Radiohead,
Danielle Patucci,
X-102,
Soft Cell,
Altered Images,
The Five Americans,
Graham Central Station,
The Angels of Light,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Oblivians,
Pantaleimon,
Siglo XX,
Faust,
Tomorrow,
the Normal,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rhythm & Sound,
Brick,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Reagan Youth,
Underground Resistance,
The Grass Roots,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Swans,
Bobby Sherman,
Flash Fearless,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bang On A Can,
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
Nas,
Brass Construction,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Bill Wells,
John Coltrane,
Severed Heads,
Rakim,
Groovy Waters,
The New Christs,
Sister Nancy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dennis Brown,
Sam Rivers,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.