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 Angola and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Cal Tjader tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Leonard Cohen,
The Smiths,
Funkadelic,
Hoover,
Rotary Connection,
Vladislav Delay,
Symarip,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
MDC,
Grauzone,
Albert Ayler,
Sandy B,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Laurel Aitken,
Minutemen,
Pussy Galore,
Camberwell Now,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Dolphy,
The Gladiators,
Oneida,
Soulsonic Force,
the Association,
Flamin' Groovies,
Charles Mingus,
The Fall,
Tommy Roe,
Sun Ra,
Public Enemy,
Crash Course in Science,
Mad Mike,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Moody Blues,
China Crisis,
Hasil Adkins,
The Cure,
Theoretical Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
the Human League,
Aswad,
Flash Fearless,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Raincoats,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joy Division,
Alison Limerick,
La Düsseldorf,
X-102,
The Black Dice,
Boz Scaggs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Misunderstood,
LL Cool J,
The Techniques,
The Fire Engines,
Surgeon,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.