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 Djibouti and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the electroclash 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
48th St. Collective,
Nick Fraelich,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Grass Roots,
Lyres,
Howard Jones,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Womack,
Soft Cell,
Severed Heads,
Dark Day,
Reuben Wilson,
Laurel Aitken,
Anthony Braxton,
Tubeway Army,
Susan Cadogan,
Agitation Free,
Youth Brigade,
Eden Ahbez,
Intrusion,
Slave,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fire Engines,
F. McDonald,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
James White and The Blacks,
Basic Channel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Heaven 17,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Names,
Piero Umiliani,
Schoolly D,
Au Pairs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Newcleus,
Jeff Mills,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
Jandek,
Suburban Knight,
Robert Görl,
Ronnie Foster,
Grey Daturas,
The Standells,
Quadrant,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Human League,
Lalann,
Robert Hood,
Sight & Sound,
Oblivians,
Stockholm Monsters,
Johnny Osbourne,
Moss Icon,
Pere Ubu,
Porter Ricks,
Can,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.