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 Kyrgyzstan and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 snare 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 Public Image Ltd. to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
John Cale,
Bootsy Collins,
Don Cherry,
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
The Saints,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Sandy B,
Sällskapet,
Royal Trux,
Aloha Tigers,
K-Klass,
The Detroit Cobras,
MC5,
Matthew Halsall,
Franke,
New York Dolls,
Negative Approach,
Wasted Youth,
Robert Hood,
Piero Umiliani,
Joy Division,
Grauzone,
Sight & Sound,
The Buckinghams,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bang On A Can,
Liliput,
Moby Grape,
Dual Sessions,
The Zeros,
Bob Dylan,
Bronski Beat,
Newcleus,
Desert Stars,
Duran Duran,
Circle Jerks,
Yusef Lateef,
Silicon Teens,
Chrome,
Absolute Body Control,
Radiohead,
Pierre Henry,
Delta 5,
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Susan Cadogan,
Max Romeo,
Technova,
The Residents,
Kas Product,
Scientists,
The Cowsills,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mark Hollis,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Warsaw,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.