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 Slovenia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 a-ha to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and an arpeggiator 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 chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
A Certain Ratio,
Kayak,
The Walker Brothers,
Mantronix,
Derrick Morgan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Tremeloes,
Motorama,
Organ,
Pierre Henry,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Grey Daturas,
Dead Boys,
Letta Mbulu,
Goldenarms,
Sister Nancy,
Black Moon,
The Zeros,
Jeff Lynne,
Erykah Badu,
Babytalk,
the Bar-Kays,
Eric B and Rakim,
Toni Rubio,
Gang of Four,
Metal Thangz,
World's Most,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
D'Angelo,
Black Flag,
OOIOO,
Isaac Hayes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Silicon Teens,
Glenn Branca,
Visage,
Basic Channel,
AZ,
The United States of America,
Don Cherry,
CMW,
Liliput,
Popol Vuh,
Yazoo,
Gong,
Tommy Roe,
Accadde A,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nick Fraelich,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ossler,
The Modern Lovers,
Arthur Verocai,
Radiohead,
The Golliwogs,
Clear Light,
8 Eyed Spy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.