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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar 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 Massinfluence to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All James White and The Blacks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Pere Ubu,
Crooked Eye,
Moebius,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Television Personalities,
The Doors,
The Move,
The Invisible,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chrome,
The Wake,
Shoche,
Barrington Levy,
Skriet,
Eli Mardock,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fortunes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Das Ding,
Jeff Lynne,
FM Einheit,
The Count Five,
cv313,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marmalade,
Lou Christie,
Fugazi,
Rotary Connection,
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gang of Four,
Albert Ayler,
Gong,
DNA,
Sonic Youth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kenny Larkin,
Supertramp,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Eric B and Rakim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
Ohio Players,
Animal Collective,
The Fire Engines,
F. McDonald,
Flash Fearless,
Sixth Finger,
L. Decosne,
Guru Guru,
Erasure,
Amon Düül II,
The Saints,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Masters at Work,
Liliput,
The Gladiators,
The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings, The Happenings.
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.