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 Cameroon and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fatback Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter & Gordon,
Magma,
The Angels of Light,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fuzztones,
The Techniques,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
a-ha,
Theoretical Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
the Bar-Kays,
The Move,
Rhythm & Sound,
Basic Channel,
Porter Ricks,
Bizarre Inc.,
Surgeon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Black Dice,
Wolf Eyes,
The Cure,
LL Cool J,
Harry Pussy,
Little Man,
Parry Music,
Schoolly D,
Robert Hood,
Delta 5,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eli Mardock,
Freddie Wadling,
Metal Thangz,
One Last Wish,
Kayak,
The Blackbyrds,
Harmonia,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wings,
Television Personalities,
Dark Day,
Pantaleimon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Remains,
Soul II Soul,
The Stooges,
Chrome,
Second Layer,
Ronnie Foster,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Pus,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tommy Roe,
The Offenders,
Gang of Four,
Jeff Mills,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.