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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 linndrum 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 Pussy Galore to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Livin' Joy. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
Circle Jerks,
Erasure,
The Buckinghams,
Interpol,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Adolescents,
Boredoms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bush Tetras,
Soft Cell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Aloha Tigers,
Quantec,
Silicon Teens,
Todd Terry,
The Birthday Party,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Toni Rubio,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Normal,
Quando Quango,
Sandy B,
The Zeros,
Drexciya,
Spandau Ballet,
Marc Almond,
Roy Ayers,
The Happenings,
Panda Bear,
Bobby Sherman,
The Fall,
Motorama,
Barbara Tucker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sixth Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Excepter,
John Foxx,
The Victims,
Throbbing Gristle,
Schoolly D,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Smiths,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Bluetip,
The Last Poets,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Model 500,
Swell Maps,
Iggy Pop,
The Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
The Cowsills,
This Heat,
Rotary Connection,
Average White Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.