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 Andorra and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 theremin 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 The Birthday Party to the disco 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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlbäck record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Von Mondo,
Yaz,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Detroit Cobras,
Severed Heads,
Average White Band,
Nils Olav,
Tubeway Army,
the Soft Cell,
Audionom,
Aswad,
John Cale,
Yazoo,
Bobby Womack,
Scrapy,
the Association,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Alton Ellis,
The Trojans,
Agitation Free,
Main Source,
Aural Exciters,
Basic Channel,
Nico,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Matthew Halsall,
Eli Mardock,
Leonard Cohen,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Barracudas,
Dawn Penn,
Tommy Roe,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ludus,
Max Romeo,
Black Bananas,
Connie Case,
The Dave Clark Five,
Buzzcocks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Saccharine Trust,
Kas Product,
Rosa Yemen,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Cell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Banda Bassotti,
Ken Boothe,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Popol Vuh,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roy Ayers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dave Gahan,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.