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 Togo and from Woodstock.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Milan.
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 sitar 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 Theoretical Girls to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Franke 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Erasure,
Cymande,
The Golliwogs,
Laurel Aitken,
Matthew Bourne,
Robert Görl,
Flash Fearless,
In Retrospect,
Spandau Ballet,
Pere Ubu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Seeds,
Animal Collective,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Schoolly D,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Procol Harum,
Banda Bassotti,
Mark Hollis,
June Days,
Quadrant,
Juan Atkins,
Ludus,
Rapeman,
Pierre Henry,
The Modern Lovers,
Funkadelic,
Monolake,
Mantronix,
Public Enemy,
Duran Duran,
Faust,
Brass Construction,
Funky Four + One,
One Last Wish,
Barrington Levy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Youth Brigade,
Roxette,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Inner City,
the Germs,
Section 25,
Amon Düül,
The Slits,
Drive Like Jehu,
FM Einheit,
The Kinks,
Crime,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gastr Del Sol,
Little Man,
Matthew Halsall,
The Happenings,
Porter Ricks,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minny Pops,
Quando Quango,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.