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 Malta and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fluxion 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Lynne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
The Offenders,
Radiopuhelimet,
Monks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mandrill,
DNA,
Donald Byrd,
Marmalade,
Eric Dolphy,
The Busters,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
B.T. Express,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
Rotary Connection,
Peter & Gordon,
Silicon Teens,
Sex Pistols,
Ultra Naté,
The Tremeloes,
Warsaw,
Gabor Szabo,
Wally Richardson,
Johnny Clarke,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare,
Steve Hackett,
Sonic Youth,
Barrington Levy,
The Vogues,
The United States of America,
Accadde A,
The Pop Group,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Monochrome Set,
Cymande,
The American Breed,
Loose Ends,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Crispy Ambulance,
Fat Boys,
John Holt,
A Certain Ratio,
Lightning Bolt,
The Velvet Underground,
Toni Rubio,
Jeru the Damaja,
Suburban Knight,
Audionom,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Drexciya,
Alphaville,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Mojo Men,
Dorothy Ashby,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.