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 Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Holger Czukay 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 Leonard Cohen to the grime 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 Yazoo. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
PIL,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rekid,
Terry Callier,
Sandy B,
Sun City Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Howard Jones,
The Five Americans,
Television Personalities,
Von Mondo,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Danielle Patucci,
Aaron Thompson,
Con Funk Shun,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
R.M.O.,
Robert Hood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jawbox,
The Seeds,
Hot Snakes,
Maleditus Sound,
Adolescents,
Donny Hathaway,
The Standells,
Pantaleimon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Modern Lovers,
Scott Walker,
Aural Exciters,
OOIOO,
Porter Ricks,
Animal Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Excepter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fatback Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Wolf Eyes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Barracudas,
Ronan,
Moss Icon,
Iggy Pop,
Tim Buckley,
Oneida,
The New Christs,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Letta Mbulu,
Chris Corsano,
The Busters,
Fat Boys,
Derrick Morgan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Infiniti,
Todd Rundgren,
the Slits,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.