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 Nepal and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Monolake to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Normal. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Infiniti,
The Motions,
Arthur Verocai,
X-102,
Sexual Harrassment,
Soul II Soul,
Fad Gadget,
Ultravox,
Harpers Bizarre,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Electric Prunes,
Dual Sessions,
The Doors,
The Happenings,
Patti Smith,
Chrome,
The Skatalites,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eden Ahbez,
Black Flag,
The Techniques,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Arab on Radar,
Lower 48,
Tom Boy,
Depeche Mode,
Black Bananas,
Roger Hodgson,
Joe Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Guru Guru,
The Red Krayola,
Kenny Larkin,
Marshall Jefferson,
Electric Prunes,
Chris & Cosey,
Royal Trux,
Von Mondo,
Spoonie Gee,
Subhumans,
The Busters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Magazine,
Bill Wells,
Bauhaus,
a-ha,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thompson Twins,
Delta 5,
The Wake,
Skriet,
Bob Dylan,
The Pop Group,
Derrick Morgan,
Television,
Visage,
Deakin,
James White and The Blacks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.