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 Austria and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Cramps to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Groovy Waters,
James White and The Blacks,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Robert Görl,
Sam Rivers,
Judy Mowatt,
Idris Muhammad,
Silicon Teens,
Rites of Spring,
Second Layer,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ronnie Foster,
the Association,
Bobby Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Standells,
JFA,
Scion,
the Soft Cell,
Pere Ubu,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Morten Harket,
Severed Heads,
Pussy Galore,
Harry Pussy,
The Pop Group,
cv313,
X-102,
Flash Fearless,
the Bar-Kays,
Marcia Griffiths,
Derrick May,
Babytalk,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Tom Boy,
Main Source,
Roxette,
Subhumans,
Anthony Braxton,
Zero Boys,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flipper,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Womack,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
Black Flag,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Q65,
Dave Gahan,
John Foxx,
Skriet,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Trumans Water,
The Divine Comedy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.