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 Japan and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Shadows of Knight to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
The Real Kids,
Gang Starr,
JFA,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Magazine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Moebius,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Hutcherson,
DJ Style,
Chrome,
Ludus,
Crime,
The Cowsills,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mojo Men,
X-101,
John Lydon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ossler,
Siglo XX,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Babytalk,
Bad Manners,
Main Source,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Pierre Henry,
Alphaville,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Swans,
Derrick Morgan,
Arcadia,
Von Mondo,
Visage,
Tom Boy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
T.S.O.L.,
Black Flag,
ABBA,
Piero Umiliani,
David Axelrod,
The Residents,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
Mark Hollis,
Roxette,
Todd Terry,
Mandrill,
Quadrant,
The Toasters,
Nils Olav,
David Bowie,
Johnny Osbourne,
Judy Mowatt,
Fela Kuti,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.