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 Spain and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar 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 Crooked Eye to the disco 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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All David Bowie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
Von Mondo,
David Bowie,
The Birthday Party,
Bronski Beat,
Siglo XX,
Bill Wells,
F. McDonald,
Half Japanese,
Man Parrish,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Toasters,
Al Stewart,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gap Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Zeros,
Trumans Water,
Joensuu 1685,
Technova,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Flag,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Boogie Down Productions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ohio Players,
Gerry Rafferty,
Curtis Mayfield,
AZ,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Freddie Wadling,
Joy Division,
Ralphi Rosario,
Y Pants,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
Massinfluence,
Throbbing Gristle,
Chris & Cosey,
Adolescents,
John Foxx,
The Walker Brothers,
MDC,
Public Enemy,
Glenn Branca,
The Dave Clark Five,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
X-Ray Spex,
Bootsy Collins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Flash Fearless,
Byron Stingily,
Thompson Twins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arcadia,
ABBA,
Ossler,
The Busters,
Steve Hackett,
Blossom Toes,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.