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 Brazil 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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Michelle Simonal to the dance 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 Buzzcocks. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
The Techniques,
Duran Duran,
Half Japanese,
Infiniti,
Little Man,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Young Rascals,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Motorama,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
X-101,
Sun Ra,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Derrick Morgan,
Harry Pussy,
Lower 48,
Dead Boys,
Excepter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Flag,
Blossom Toes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mary Jane Girls,
Anakelly,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fortunes,
La Düsseldorf,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
Loose Ends,
the Normal,
The Slits,
Youth Brigade,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Hood,
Pole,
Ice-T,
Goldenarms,
Eden Ahbez,
Guru Guru,
Roxette,
Qualms,
Yaz,
The Pretty Things,
48th St. Collective,
Kerri Chandler,
Freddie Wadling,
Metal Thangz,
Ten City,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lindisfarne,
The Stooges,
Q and Not U,
OOIOO,
Tears for Fears,
Sight & Sound,
Reagan Youth,
James White and The Blacks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Juan Atkins,
Blancmange,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.