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 United States and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rotary Connection to the techno 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
X-Ray Spex,
Television,
Can,
The Angels of Light,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Buzzcocks,
Pylon,
Marc Almond,
The Fuzztones,
Lucky Dragons,
Eden Ahbez,
Lakeside,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Erasure,
Dawn Penn,
Schoolly D,
Crime,
The Moody Blues,
The Evens,
The Blackbyrds,
Rekid,
Massinfluence,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
Deakin,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Associates,
D'Angelo,
The Move,
Lightning Bolt,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mary Jane Girls,
Khruangbin,
DJ Style,
Basic Channel,
Urselle,
Fluxion,
Glenn Branca,
L. Decosne,
This Heat,
Skaos,
Skriet,
Pole,
Nas,
Unwound,
The Selecter,
David Bowie,
Girls At Our Best!,
ABC,
Scion,
Peter and Kerry,
Colin Newman,
James White and The Blacks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Ossler,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gang Starr,
Todd Terry,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.