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 Latvia and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Joy Division to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marmalade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Delon & Dalcan,
Brand Nubian,
Cameo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grey Daturas,
Minny Pops,
Erasure,
Blake Baxter,
Matthew Bourne,
Carl Craig,
The Names,
Soul II Soul,
La Düsseldorf,
Amazonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Young Marble Giants,
The Remains,
Skriet,
Spandau Ballet,
The Divine Comedy,
Lungfish,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
Rod Modell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Patti Smith,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Freddie Wadling,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Janne Schatter,
The Five Americans,
Pole,
The Angels of Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
cv313,
Rakim,
Scott Walker,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Tres Demented,
Organ,
Loose Ends,
FM Einheit,
Excepter,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Offenders,
The Busters,
Yaz,
Mission of Burma,
Chris & Cosey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
Suburban Knight,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Parry Music,
The Moody Blues,
Youth Brigade,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.