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 Grenada and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Man Eating Sloth to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Intrusion,
Monks,
a-ha,
Laurel Aitken,
48th St. Collective,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Average White Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Marc Almond,
kango's stein massive,
Thompson Twins,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Slackers,
The New Christs,
Jerry's Kids,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
F. McDonald,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sparks,
Don Cherry,
Rhythm & Sound,
David Bowie,
Rites of Spring,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Leaves,
Panda Bear,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Zeros,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David Axelrod,
Agent Orange,
The Index,
The Cowsills,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rotary Connection,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Vladislav Delay,
The Human League,
L. Decosne,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Sneak,
Lungfish,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sister Nancy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joe Smooth,
Hasil Adkins,
Fluxion,
Johnny Clarke,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Stooges,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Schoolly D,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.