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 France and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 rhodes 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 Erasure to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Agent Orange,
Rotary Connection,
Fela Kuti,
Nirvana,
Chris & Cosey,
Dawn Penn,
Matthew Halsall,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Faraquet,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ken Boothe,
Circle Jerks,
Talk Talk,
kango's stein massive,
Country Teasers,
ABBA,
Mantronix,
D'Angelo,
The Cowsills,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Harpers Bizarre,
Mary Jane Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Cheater Slicks,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joe Smooth,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flash Fearless,
Joe Finger,
the Sonics,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mo-Dettes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Walker Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Hill,
Soulsonic Force,
Rekid,
Qualms,
The Vogues,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Johnny Osbourne,
Magma,
Black Bananas,
Ronan,
Sandy B,
Eric Dolphy,
Marvin Gaye,
the Slits,
Monolake,
Das Ding,
Eli Mardock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Intrusion,
Juan Atkins,
The Music Machine,
Model 500,
Ohio Players,
Kas Product,
The Zeros,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.