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 Costa Rica and from Copenhagen.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 a-ha to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erasure,
ABBA,
The Walker Brothers,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
The Names,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Sandy B,
Rapeman,
The Detroit Cobras,
Electric Prunes,
Hot Snakes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Moleskins,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pylon,
Masters at Work,
Chris & Cosey,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lakeside,
Desert Stars,
John Cale,
Drexciya,
David McCallum,
Danielle Patucci,
Anthony Braxton,
Gichy Dan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Connie Case,
Moss Icon,
The Grass Roots,
Public Image Ltd.,
JFA,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Skarface,
The Moody Blues,
Alice Coltrane,
The Victims,
The Fortunes,
Clear Light,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lyres,
UT,
Sonic Youth,
Duran Duran,
Funky Four + One,
Bill Wells,
Lungfish,
Hasil Adkins,
Symarip,
Black Sheep,
Suicide,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ten City,
Bob Dylan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Index,
Joyce Sims,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.