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 Guyana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Spandau Ballet to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barrington Levy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Jeff Mills,
Main Source,
Crime,
Lower 48,
Silicon Teens,
Duran Duran,
The Techniques,
Accadde A,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jeff Lynne,
Mark Hollis,
Tears for Fears,
Slave,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Slits,
Hardrive,
The Victims,
the Germs,
Maurizio,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Warren Ellis,
Harmonia,
Ultimate Spinach,
Funky Four + One,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Martian,
New Age Steppers,
Severed Heads,
Suburban Knight,
Outsiders,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hashim,
Throbbing Gristle,
June of 44,
Underground Resistance,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Flipper,
Pantaleimon,
The Skatalites,
L. Decosne,
D'Angelo,
Bob Dylan,
8 Eyed Spy,
Laurel Aitken,
The Velvet Underground,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dennis Brown,
The Modern Lovers,
The Tremeloes,
The Blackbyrds,
Michelle Simonal,
The Electric Prunes,
Guru Guru,
Godley & Creme,
The Dirtbombs,
Scratch Acid,
Gang Starr,
DJ Sneak,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.