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 Belarus and from Paris.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tim Buckley 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
The Barracudas,
ABC,
The Monochrome Set,
JFA,
U.S. Maple,
Essential Logic,
Dark Day,
The Remains,
The Grass Roots,
Massinfluence,
Drive Like Jehu,
China Crisis,
Dave Gahan,
Bauhaus,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Morten Harket,
Icehouse,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Darondo,
Rekid,
Ronan,
Roy Ayers,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Swans,
Lucky Dragons,
Marvin Gaye,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
UT,
Sällskapet,
Warren Ellis,
Matthew Halsall,
Scion,
Main Source,
Todd Terry,
The Fire Engines,
Saccharine Trust,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eve St. Jones,
kango's stein massive,
Shuggie Otis,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yellowson,
Kerrie Biddell,
Hardrive,
The Pretty Things,
Hoover,
Al Stewart,
New York Dolls,
The Fortunes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Simply Red,
Ponytail,
Eden Ahbez,
Can,
Nick Fraelich,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Depeche Mode,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.