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 Bulgaria and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the grime 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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Sister Nancy,
Cluster,
The Grass Roots,
Scientists,
The Beau Brummels,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bad Manners,
The Move,
Radiohead,
Underground Resistance,
Dead Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
the Association,
David McCallum,
X-102,
Toni Rubio,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Max Romeo,
Joy Division,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joensuu 1685,
Young Marble Giants,
Goldenarms,
Kenny Larkin,
8 Eyed Spy,
Zapp,
Model 500,
Stiv Bators,
The Walker Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Robert Görl,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sandy B,
Ten City,
Pussy Galore,
Janne Schatter,
The Standells,
Fad Gadget,
John Cale,
Jawbox,
Country Teasers,
D'Angelo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
John Lydon,
One Last Wish,
Colin Newman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Von Mondo,
Piero Umiliani,
Eurythmics,
The Human League,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Amon Düül II,
the Swans,
Los Fastidios,
Patti Smith,
Kurtis Blow,
Technova,
Circle Jerks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.