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 Russia and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Zeros to the jazz 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Jerry's Kids,
Matthew Bourne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Archie Shepp,
The Electric Prunes,
Y Pants,
X-Ray Spex,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Neon Judgement,
Suburban Knight,
Colin Newman,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Reed,
Echospace,
Marmalade,
Sandy B,
Technova,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Slits,
Funkadelic,
Make Up,
Bauhaus,
Arab on Radar,
John Cale,
Whodini,
Kas Product,
kango's stein massive,
Kenny Larkin,
Oblivians,
Susan Cadogan,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Intrusion,
The Moody Blues,
Panda Bear,
Motorama,
Subhumans,
Mary Jane Girls,
Faust,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Smoke,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rod Modell,
Aaron Thompson,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Schoolly D,
The Cowsills,
Kerrie Biddell,
Grauzone,
Loose Ends,
Guru Guru,
the Bar-Kays,
A Certain Ratio,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Machine,
Marc Almond,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.