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 Sudan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 808 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the jazz 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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Human League,
X-102,
New Age Steppers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Mummies,
Pantaleimon,
Lakeside,
The Flesh Eaters,
Black Pus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Alice Coltrane,
Josef K,
Tom Boy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Delta 5,
The Stooges,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
the Human League,
UT,
Surgeon,
The Motions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Clear Light,
Ossler,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Graham Central Station,
Godley & Creme,
The Remains,
A Certain Ratio,
Barrington Levy,
Half Japanese,
Peter and Kerry,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Frankie Knuckles,
PIL,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
ABBA,
Laurel Aitken,
Fat Boys,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Delon & Dalcan,
Freddie Wadling,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jeru the Damaja,
The United States of America,
the Slits,
Monolake,
Quadrant,
The Durutti Column,
The Selecter,
Talk Talk,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funky Four + One,
Gabor Szabo,
Howard Jones,
Quantec,
Flash Fearless,
Alphaville,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.