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 Lithuania and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Infiniti to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Marc Almond,
Deepchord,
The Pretty Things,
The Slackers,
Cluster,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Real Kids,
Vainqueur,
Guru Guru,
The Pop Group,
Ice-T,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fuzztones,
Technova,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Toasters,
U.S. Maple,
Absolute Body Control,
Michelle Simonal,
JFA,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
John Lydon,
Peter and Kerry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alton Ellis,
Hasil Adkins,
Rotary Connection,
The Mummies,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ronnie Foster,
F. McDonald,
Scott Walker,
Electric Prunes,
Metal Thangz,
Crime,
John Cale,
Derrick May,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Half Japanese,
Charles Mingus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Sound,
Slave,
Yellowson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jacques Brel,
Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
Roxette,
Fugazi,
Barclay James Harvest,
DNA,
Kurtis Blow,
The Raincoats,
Iggy Pop,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.