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 Panama and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 Bill Near to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mad Mike record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Normal,
Stiv Bators,
Cameo,
Easy Going,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ken Boothe,
The Residents,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Whodini,
Tommy Roe,
Skriet,
Das Ding,
X-101,
Barbara Tucker,
Colin Newman,
Grey Daturas,
T.S.O.L.,
Andrew Hill,
Al Stewart,
Girls At Our Best!,
Matthew Halsall,
Heaven 17,
H. Thieme,
Goldenarms,
Zapp,
ABC,
Eddi Front,
Oblivians,
Organ,
Altered Images,
Soft Machine,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
LL Cool J,
Cheater Slicks,
Sister Nancy,
Delta 5,
Roxy Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Sheep,
Arcadia,
Average White Band,
The Doors,
Fatback Band,
Chris Corsano,
kango's stein massive,
FM Einheit,
Dave Gahan,
Laurel Aitken,
Wally Richardson,
Carl Craig,
Groovy Waters,
JFA,
Slave,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.