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 Thailand and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro 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 Yellowson to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lou Christie,
Moby Grape,
Gabor Szabo,
AZ,
Fad Gadget,
Letta Mbulu,
Scrapy,
Qualms,
Howard Jones,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine,
Hot Snakes,
Metal Thangz,
The Buckinghams,
The Stooges,
Aural Exciters,
Toni Rubio,
Fatback Band,
Erykah Badu,
The Fuzztones,
Parry Music,
Fear,
Fluxion,
Visage,
Robert Görl,
The Gories,
Lakeside,
Sarah Menescal,
The Skatalites,
Pole,
L. Decosne,
Boz Scaggs,
Joey Negro,
Section 25,
Slave,
the Association,
The Index,
Cameo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Massinfluence,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Associates,
The Human League,
Drexciya,
Brand Nubian,
Nico,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Happenings,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Can,
The Raincoats,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Quantec,
Kayak,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Terrestrial Tones,
Robert Hood,
Reuben Wilson,
Joyce Sims,
Angry Samoans,
Smog,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.