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 Chile and from Milan.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cramps. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mad Mike,
The Buckinghams,
Colin Newman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gabor Szabo,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Residents,
kango's stein massive,
The Last Poets,
Sister Nancy,
The Invisible,
Pylon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Girls At Our Best!,
Man Parrish,
Bill Near,
Sight & Sound,
Nils Olav,
Brass Construction,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
EPMD,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tim Buckley,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Remains,
Lee Hazlewood,
Minnie Riperton,
Max Romeo,
Barbara Tucker,
Newcleus,
Derrick Morgan,
New York Dolls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Electric Prunes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Alison Limerick,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Foxx,
Sex Pistols,
Intrusion,
Von Mondo,
Kerri Chandler,
Roxy Music,
Fad Gadget,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Alton Ellis,
the Swans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Mission of Burma,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bauhaus,
Model 500,
The Searchers,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.