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 Romania and from Toronto.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Trumans Water to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Magma,
Von Mondo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The United States of America,
Neil Young,
Zero Boys,
Schoolly D,
John Foxx,
Supertramp,
Ultimate Spinach,
The New Christs,
Suburban Knight,
the Germs,
cv313,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Fortunes,
Funky Four + One,
The Raincoats,
Kayak,
Bad Manners,
Amon Düül II,
Leonard Cohen,
A Certain Ratio,
Trumans Water,
Minor Threat,
Dennis Brown,
Wire,
Warsaw,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Tremeloes,
The Music Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
the Bar-Kays,
Blossom Toes,
Ultra Naté,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Animal Collective,
AZ,
Bush Tetras,
The Slits,
Danielle Patucci,
Marc Almond,
Colin Newman,
Index,
Skaos,
Gong,
La Düsseldorf,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
The American Breed,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lakeside,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Joey Negro,
Lightning Bolt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.