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 Sri Lanka and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe 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 Negative Approach to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
EPMD,
MC5,
Ice-T,
Wings,
Duran Duran,
Thompson Twins,
The Smiths,
Quantec,
Outsiders,
The Stooges,
Howard Jones,
Stockholm Monsters,
Alison Limerick,
cv313,
The Residents,
F. McDonald,
Matthew Bourne,
Boz Scaggs,
Soul Sonic Force,
David Bowie,
L. Decosne,
Audionom,
Idris Muhammad,
Livin' Joy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Shuggie Otis,
Shoche,
Steve Hackett,
Ossler,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pagans,
Icehouse,
John Lydon,
The Blues Magoos,
World's Most,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Wake,
Eric Dolphy,
The Seeds,
Suicide,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ponytail,
The Blackbyrds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
ABC,
The Modern Lovers,
June of 44,
The Barracudas,
The Associates,
Moebius,
Cluster,
the Soft Cell,
Moss Icon,
Boredoms,
Dual Sessions,
Stiv Bators,
Eurythmics,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.