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 Ghana and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dave Gahan to the rock 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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All Magma tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Drexciya,
Archie Shepp,
Unwound,
Minor Threat,
Anakelly,
DJ Style,
Fluxion,
Young Marble Giants,
David Bowie,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Half Japanese,
The Busters,
June Days,
Skaos,
Eli Mardock,
DNA,
The Index,
Bootsy Collins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eddi Front,
Pere Ubu,
Slave,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Vogues,
the Germs,
Spoonie Gee,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Dennis Brown,
The Grass Roots,
Gang Green,
Chrome,
Gang Starr,
Man Parrish,
Flamin' Groovies,
Toni Rubio,
New Order,
Sun City Girls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Babytalk,
The Mummies,
Cymande,
Ten City,
Sun Ra,
Can,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Marvin Gaye,
Robert Wyatt,
Niagra,
Clear Light,
The Fugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Surgeon,
Joe Finger,
Deakin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.