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 Congo and from Taipei.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Manila.
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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 a-ha to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kings Of Tomorrow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Albert Ayler,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Divine Comedy,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Leaves,
The Raincoats,
Charles Mingus,
Dave Gahan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Malaria!,
MDC,
X-102,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gichy Dan,
Circle Jerks,
B.T. Express,
Minor Threat,
June Days,
Thompson Twins,
Radiohead,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jandek,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Monochrome Set,
Wings,
The Red Krayola,
Eric Dolphy,
Dark Day,
Arcadia,
Babytalk,
the Bar-Kays,
The Count Five,
Black Bananas,
Marine Girls,
Clear Light,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Peter and Kerry,
Idris Muhammad,
Quadrant,
Rites of Spring,
Pantaleimon,
Tim Buckley,
Sonic Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
Zapp,
Glenn Branca,
Joyce Sims,
The Slackers,
Toni Rubio,
Rotary Connection,
Robert Hood,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dual Sessions,
Rosa Yemen,
New York Dolls,
Skaos,
The Busters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.