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 Libya and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Paris.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Outsiders to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Pere Ubu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Icehouse,
Gabor Szabo,
Urselle,
Jeff Mills,
The Buckinghams,
Jerry Gold Smith,
the Association,
The Cowsills,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun City Girls,
Malaria!,
Isaac Hayes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Stetsasonic,
Darondo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Sherman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Infiniti,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The J.B.'s,
Excepter,
Grauzone,
Anakelly,
Robert Wyatt,
The Blues Magoos,
Warsaw,
Scientists,
Jacques Brel,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mantronix,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Graham Central Station,
China Crisis,
Section 25,
Jacob Miller,
DJ Style,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ralphi Rosario,
Unwound,
Marcia Griffiths,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Colin Newman,
EPMD,
Altered Images,
Outsiders,
The Move,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Charles Mingus,
Japan,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
PIL,
Depeche Mode,
The Gories,
Delon & Dalcan,
Vainqueur,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.