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 Guinea-Bissau and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.
All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pierre Henry,
Hardrive,
T. Rex,
The Smiths,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rotary Connection,
Circle Jerks,
Arthur Verocai,
Eddi Front,
The Happenings,
Main Source,
The Barracudas,
Kurtis Blow,
Byron Stingily,
Aloha Tigers,
The Fire Engines,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gichy Dan,
Ultra Naté,
The Count Five,
Thompson Twins,
Swans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
K-Klass,
Pagans,
Duran Duran,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Erasure,
Suicide,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Iggy Pop,
The Velvet Underground,
Organ,
Spandau Ballet,
The Wake,
Procol Harum,
Motorama,
Erykah Badu,
John Foxx,
Graham Central Station,
The Detroit Cobras,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pantytec,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Second Layer,
Tom Boy,
Grauzone,
Lyres,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nick Fraelich,
Eric Copeland,
Jandek,
Scratch Acid,
Ponytail,
Alison Limerick,
The Motions,
Mars,
Terry Callier,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.