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 Ivory Coast and from Delhi.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tremeloes to the disco 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Tropical Tobacco tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Half Japanese,
Ohio Players,
Pagans,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
Neil Young,
Mission of Burma,
The Victims,
Robert Wyatt,
Flash Fearless,
Andrew Hill,
The Evens,
Matthew Halsall,
Negative Approach,
Oblivians,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gastr Del Sol,
48th St. Collective,
Roxette,
Roy Ayers,
Michelle Simonal,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Saccharine Trust,
Dead Boys,
Das Ding,
Minutemen,
Freddie Wadling,
Lungfish,
John Lydon,
Dawn Penn,
Yaz,
The Fortunes,
Heaven 17,
Brass Construction,
John Coltrane,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Todd Terry,
Scott Walker,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Moody Blues,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiohead,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Skarface,
Mark Hollis,
The Real Kids,
Patti Smith,
Alison Limerick,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scrapy,
Make Up,
Metal Thangz,
The Mojo Men,
the Sonics,
Scratch Acid,
Arab on Radar,
Faraquet,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.