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 Guatemala and from Lyon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 World's Most 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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Peter & Gordon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rites of Spring,
Jandek,
the Germs,
Brothers Johnson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Metal Thangz,
Quadrant,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Alarm Clocks,
Byron Stingily,
U.S. Maple,
Roger Hodgson,
The Tremeloes,
UT,
Excepter,
Graham Central Station,
Agent Orange,
Japan,
Glenn Branca,
Eddi Front,
Oneida,
The Associates,
Josef K,
Pantytec,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Cowsills,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drive Like Jehu,
Minutemen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marvin Gaye,
Deakin,
Jeff Lynne,
Nik Kershaw,
Maleditus Sound,
Barclay James Harvest,
Angry Samoans,
Accadde A,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Con Funk Shun,
Todd Rundgren,
New York Dolls,
Electric Prunes,
Vladislav Delay,
ABC,
Anthony Braxton,
Ossler,
Donald Byrd,
T.S.O.L.,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
Kerri Chandler,
Barrington Levy,
Jacob Miller,
Siglo XX,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.