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 Netherlands and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Half Japanese to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Bluetip,
Scan 7,
Ten City,
Malaria!,
Lyres,
Sparks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Susan Cadogan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
H. Thieme,
John Lydon,
The Gories,
The Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Grauzone,
The Grass Roots,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quadrant,
The Moleskins,
Pylon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Dawn Penn,
The Doobie Brothers,
Swell Maps,
Robert Hood,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Monolake,
Roger Hodgson,
Delta 5,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wings,
Rekid,
The Walker Brothers,
Chrome,
the Soft Cell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neu!,
Blossom Toes,
Darondo,
Sugar Minott,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Schoolly D,
Faraquet,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sisters of Mercy,
Prince Buster,
Goldenarms,
Godley & Creme,
R.M.O.,
Erykah Badu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Black Moon,
The Neon Judgement,
Parry Music,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Associates,
Porter Ricks,
Ituana,
Procol Harum,
MC5,
Wire,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.