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 Singapore and from Manila.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Pet Shop Boys to the punk 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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
FM Einheit,
Buzzcocks,
Fluxion,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Newcleus,
U.S. Maple,
Country Teasers,
Youth Brigade,
John Holt,
Model 500,
Lebanon Hanover,
Excepter,
The Raincoats,
Sister Nancy,
A Certain Ratio,
David McCallum,
T.S.O.L.,
Scott Walker,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Alison Limerick,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Al Stewart,
B.T. Express,
Throbbing Gristle,
Silicon Teens,
Erasure,
Aloha Tigers,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Isaac Hayes,
Faraquet,
the Germs,
The Busters,
This Heat,
Rakim,
Moss Icon,
World's Most,
Black Bananas,
Black Flag,
The Gladiators,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Smoke,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The American Breed,
ABC,
Angry Samoans,
The Human League,
Lungfish,
Brick,
The Electric Prunes,
Drexciya,
Terry Callier,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ituana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Delta 5,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.