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 Bahrain and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 Newcleus to the techno 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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
kango's stein massive,
E-Dancer,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wasted Youth,
The Happenings,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Neil Young,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Reed,
Lou Christie,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ten City,
Eurythmics,
Sexual Harrassment,
Anakelly,
Darondo,
Joe Smooth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Crispy Ambulance,
Outsiders,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
UT,
Skarface,
Jeru the Damaja,
Fluxion,
Funky Four + One,
Kenny Larkin,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Fuzztones,
ABC,
Sun City Girls,
Aswad,
Ohio Players,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Derrick May,
Von Mondo,
the Soft Cell,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The United States of America,
June of 44,
Simply Red,
Half Japanese,
The Velvet Underground,
The Offenders,
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Golliwogs,
The Divine Comedy,
The Five Americans,
Little Man,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Magma,
T.S.O.L.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Sonics,
Joe Finger,
Kool Moe Dee,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.