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 New Zealand and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Soul II Soul to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Jeff Mills,
Andrew Hill,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gichy Dan,
The Martian,
Fat Boys,
R.M.O.,
Sound Behaviour,
Joensuu 1685,
Yaz,
Royal Trux,
The Slits,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James White and The Blacks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Das Ding,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Clarke,
Don Cherry,
Maurizio,
Outsiders,
Davy DMX,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Fad Gadget,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sam Rivers,
Pere Ubu,
The Neon Judgement,
Morten Harket,
Eric Copeland,
Fugazi,
The Smoke,
Marc Almond,
Bauhaus,
Can,
The Count Five,
The Beau Brummels,
The Leaves,
The Moody Blues,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Public Enemy,
Icehouse,
Brothers Johnson,
Nik Kershaw,
Negative Approach,
Blake Baxter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Lou Reed,
Nils Olav,
Tears for Fears,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Human League,
Panda Bear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bill Near,
Kaleidoscope,
Minutemen,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.