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 Kenya and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 linndrum 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 Suicide to the funk 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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Toasters,
Zero Boys,
The Music Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bad Manners,
The Pretty Things,
Talk Talk,
Juan Atkins,
One Last Wish,
The Wake,
Scientists,
New York Dolls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
Livin' Joy,
Max Romeo,
Bronski Beat,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eric Dolphy,
Visage,
Audionom,
Thee Headcoats,
Warren Ellis,
Quando Quango,
Crime,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Selecter,
Bauhaus,
Babytalk,
Dave Gahan,
The Buckinghams,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Royal Trux,
Depeche Mode,
Magma,
Delta 5,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Spoonie Gee,
Fatback Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Skaos,
Bobby Byrd,
Matthew Bourne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scrapy,
X-102,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moby Grape,
Heaven 17,
Tim Buckley,
Wolf Eyes,
Laurel Aitken,
Niagra,
Anakelly,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.