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 Saudi Arabia and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Crispy Ambulance to the funk 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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
The Electric Prunes,
Flash Fearless,
Ohio Players,
Sandy B,
Nik Kershaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smiths,
Black Sheep,
Pere Ubu,
Siglo XX,
Cheater Slicks,
the Human League,
Fat Boys,
The Golliwogs,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Christie,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Kinks,
Suburban Knight,
Young Marble Giants,
The Busters,
Amon Düül II,
Faust,
Ronan,
Quantec,
AZ,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Danielle Patucci,
Adolescents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang of Four,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tommy Roe,
Todd Rundgren,
Dennis Brown,
Crispy Ambulance,
Gregory Isaacs,
Aloha Tigers,
Soulsonic Force,
Sun Ra,
OOIOO,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mandrill,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ponytail,
the Bar-Kays,
Franke,
Soft Cell,
MC5,
Hoover,
Mark Hollis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Zero Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.