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 Haiti and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 Deadbeat to the jazz 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blancmange 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Martian,
Man Eating Sloth,
Tim Buckley,
Silicon Teens,
Goldenarms,
Radiohead,
Piero Umiliani,
The Trojans,
The Buckinghams,
Amon Düül II,
Country Teasers,
Depeche Mode,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hoover,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gabor Szabo,
Eurythmics,
Minny Pops,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Audionom,
Flamin' Groovies,
Excepter,
Bluetip,
Warsaw,
Erykah Badu,
Oneida,
Pagans,
Jawbox,
Gang of Four,
The Residents,
Sound Behaviour,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pere Ubu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Gap Band,
Deadbeat,
kango's stein massive,
Nas,
Cal Tjader,
Archie Shepp,
Marine Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Lalann,
Buzzcocks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Negative Approach,
Japan,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Green,
Massinfluence,
A Certain Ratio,
Scion,
La Düsseldorf,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.