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 Jordan and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Gastr Del Sol to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Velvet Underground,
New Age Steppers,
Ultimate Spinach,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Flash Fearless,
La Düsseldorf,
The Angels of Light,
Gabor Szabo,
Delon & Dalcan,
H. Thieme,
T.S.O.L.,
Soulsonic Force,
the Soft Cell,
Black Bananas,
Davy DMX,
The Stooges,
Radiohead,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roger Hodgson,
Suburban Knight,
Boredoms,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Brothers Johnson,
Von Mondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kerri Chandler,
Soft Machine,
X-Ray Spex,
Symarip,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
EPMD,
Motorama,
Ituana,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Fortunes,
Chris & Cosey,
Suicide,
Pussy Galore,
Nik Kershaw,
Wolf Eyes,
Visage,
Rosa Yemen,
The Golliwogs,
Organ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Gladiators,
Barrington Levy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
E-Dancer,
Deadbeat,
Ronan,
Barry Ungar,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.