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 France and from Tehran.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Silicon Teens to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 B.T. Express. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Jeff Mills,
a-ha,
The Cure,
Eden Ahbez,
The Mojo Men,
Sex Pistols,
The Monks,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonny Sharrock,
One Last Wish,
The Remains,
Scan 7,
Section 25,
Sound Behaviour,
Fad Gadget,
Big Daddy Kane,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gregory Isaacs,
Delon & Dalcan,
Moss Icon,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker,
Hot Snakes,
June Days,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David Axelrod,
Visage,
Rhythm & Sound,
B.T. Express,
Minutemen,
Ronnie Foster,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Motions,
The Count Five,
The Residents,
Unwound,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Porter Ricks,
Radio Birdman,
Nick Fraelich,
AZ,
Wire,
Eric Dolphy,
48th St. Collective,
Robert Hood,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Deakin,
Iggy Pop,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Fall,
Inner City,
The Gap Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Drexciya,
Dave Gahan,
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
Girls At Our Best!,
Urselle,
the Association,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.