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 Iran and from New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Detroit Cobras to the rock 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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Human League,
Gichy Dan,
Roxy Music,
Von Mondo,
Surgeon,
Visage,
Quando Quango,
Outsiders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Robert Görl,
Young Marble Giants,
Neu!,
Scion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Model 500,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gabor Szabo,
Chrome,
New York Dolls,
Bang On A Can,
Godley & Creme,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rakim,
Camberwell Now,
Babytalk,
The Beau Brummels,
Dual Sessions,
Chris Corsano,
ABBA,
Sällskapet,
Circle Jerks,
Eric Copeland,
The Dave Clark Five,
Morten Harket,
The Names,
cv313,
Wings,
Blancmange,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
EPMD,
The Golliwogs,
Rites of Spring,
David Bowie,
Lower 48,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Archie Shepp,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
R.M.O.,
Nico,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Hot Snakes,
Metal Thangz,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.