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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 Pet Shop Boys to the disco 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crime record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Joe Finger,
Oneida,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fortunes,
L. Decosne,
Public Enemy,
Y Pants,
ABC,
Niagra,
Ituana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yellowson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Knickerbockers,
Little Man,
Sugar Minott,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Roxy Music,
Harmonia,
Clear Light,
The Stooges,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young,
Eric Copeland,
Tears for Fears,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
London Community Gospel Choir,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Human League,
New York Dolls,
John Foxx,
Aloha Tigers,
Reuben Wilson,
R.M.O.,
The Kinks,
The Fall,
The Skatalites,
The Wake,
the Fania All-Stars,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fela Kuti,
The Music Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Interpol,
Morten Harket,
Mandrill,
The Red Krayola,
Sparks,
The Dead C,
Supertramp,
the Soft Cell,
Oblivians,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nik Kershaw,
Lyres,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.