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 Greece and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lower 48 to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Smog,
Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pierre Henry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mission of Burma,
The Standells,
Pulsallama,
Kerrie Biddell,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Easy Going,
Hashim,
Sixth Finger,
the Human League,
The Smiths,
Sunsets and Hearts,
R.M.O.,
the Normal,
New York Dolls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Theoretical Girls,
Warren Ellis,
Bauhaus,
Janne Schatter,
Lower 48,
Lucky Dragons,
Make Up,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
EPMD,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Los Fastidios,
Harpers Bizarre,
Adolescents,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dave Gahan,
Supertramp,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Fortunes,
Cybotron,
Magazine,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soul II Soul,
Q and Not U,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Roy Ayers,
Arab on Radar,
The Slits,
Neu!,
Joe Smooth,
Parry Music,
X-102,
Boogie Down Productions,
Tim Buckley,
The Gap Band,
Scan 7,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bad Manners,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.