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 Monaco and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Fugs to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Star Department 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heaven 17 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Gang Dance,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Junior Murvin,
The Gun Club,
The Gories,
Ornette Coleman,
Minny Pops,
Adolescents,
The Cure,
Spoonie Gee,
Kenny Larkin,
Nirvana,
Desert Stars,
Quadrant,
Judy Mowatt,
E-Dancer,
Wasted Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Flamin' Groovies,
Minnie Riperton,
Arcadia,
Morten Harket,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lucky Dragons,
Television,
Prince Buster,
Urselle,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
The Last Poets,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lakeside,
Lou Reed,
Henry Cow,
Half Japanese,
Ultravox,
Monolake,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yaz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Skarface,
Sandy B,
Kas Product,
Ken Boothe,
Jeff Lynne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fela Kuti,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
T.S.O.L.,
Yusef Lateef,
the Fania All-Stars,
James White and The Blacks,
the Soft Cell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Silicon Teens,
Country Teasers,
Groovy Waters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Brick,
ABBA,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.