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 Niger 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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bluetip to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
China Crisis,
Unwound,
Franke,
Slave,
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Germs,
Fugazi,
The Names,
Bobby Sherman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Trumans Water,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Suburban Knight,
Pantytec,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yellowson,
The United States of America,
Jeff Mills,
Oblivians,
Crash Course in Science,
Fatback Band,
Hardrive,
Wasted Youth,
These Immortal Souls,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Birthday Party,
X-Ray Spex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mandrill,
Quantec,
The Techniques,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter & Gordon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sällskapet,
Iggy Pop,
Mr. Review,
Joensuu 1685,
Arab on Radar,
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
Sound Behaviour,
Erasure,
Q and Not U,
Television Personalities,
Barbara Tucker,
Fad Gadget,
Livin' Joy,
Marc Almond,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lower 48,
Eve St. Jones,
Minnie Riperton,
Bill Near,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harry Pussy,
The Blackbyrds,
Ultimate Spinach,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.