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 Mauritius and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Zapp to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Iggy Pop. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echo & the Bunnymen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
DJ Style,
ABBA,
Desert Stars,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Litter,
Chris Corsano,
Pet Shop Boys,
Idris Muhammad,
The Happenings,
Surgeon,
L. Decosne,
Alphaville,
Judy Mowatt,
Morten Harket,
Silicon Teens,
The Move,
Flipper,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Moleskins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dave Gahan,
Intrusion,
Gregory Isaacs,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Pop Group,
Leonard Cohen,
the Swans,
10cc,
Joy Division,
The Saints,
Lakeside,
The Remains,
Jawbox,
Brass Construction,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pantaleimon,
Make Up,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Royal Trux,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ice-T,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fad Gadget,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Main Source,
The Dead C,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Q65,
Lungfish,
In Retrospect,
Mo-Dettes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
MC5,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.