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 Armenia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 David Bowie 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the crunk 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Moss Icon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lalann,
Joensuu 1685,
Stereo Dub,
The Stooges,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Skriet,
The Move,
Howard Jones,
Altered Images,
Von Mondo,
Bush Tetras,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Erykah Badu,
8 Eyed Spy,
EPMD,
Reuben Wilson,
Chrome,
Agitation Free,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Tremeloes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Byron Stingily,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Joe Finger,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
MDC,
Throbbing Gristle,
One Last Wish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ken Boothe,
Matthew Halsall,
Soft Cell,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Bananas,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Moody Blues,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Infiniti,
Kool Moe Dee,
Vainqueur,
Visage,
Pantytec,
Quando Quango,
Sun Ra,
Ultra Naté,
Half Japanese,
The Leaves,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sarah Menescal,
Television,
X-102,
Theoretical Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lyres,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.