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 Bahamas and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Salvador.
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 sitar 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 John Holt to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Qualms,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultravox,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The United States of America,
The Fuzztones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
Roxette,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Faust,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Smiths,
The Electric Prunes,
Tubeway Army,
The Music Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Angry Samoans,
Aloha Tigers,
Joy Division,
cv313,
Excepter,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Toasters,
Main Source,
John Coltrane,
Barbara Tucker,
Mark Hollis,
Smog,
Stiv Bators,
Duran Duran,
La Düsseldorf,
Slave,
Sex Pistols,
Eden Ahbez,
One Last Wish,
Massinfluence,
Alphaville,
The Slackers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Crime,
The Young Rascals,
Basic Channel,
The Searchers,
Lightning Bolt,
U.S. Maple,
Patti Smith,
Simply Red,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
The Fire Engines,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Donny Hathaway,
Zapp,
Visage,
The Blackbyrds,
Scrapy,
Yazoo,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.