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 Turkey and from Copenhagen.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Bauhaus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Evens. All the underground hits.
All Mandrill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maurizio,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
John Lydon,
Television,
ABC,
Echospace,
The Birthday Party,
Q and Not U,
Banda Bassotti,
Rites of Spring,
Fear,
Pylon,
Liliput,
Nils Olav,
Mars,
Cal Tjader,
Sound Behaviour,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Doors,
OOIOO,
Agent Orange,
The Misunderstood,
Youth Brigade,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Eddi Front,
The Martian,
Niagra,
Tim Buckley,
Johnny Osbourne,
Severed Heads,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joey Negro,
The Moody Blues,
Los Fastidios,
The United States of America,
48th St. Collective,
Massinfluence,
Sparks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stiv Bators,
Bizarre Inc.,
Funkadelic,
The Trojans,
Josef K,
Flamin' Groovies,
Prince Buster,
Stereo Dub,
Dave Gahan,
The Stooges,
Spoonie Gee,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Slits,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lalann,
The Fall,
Archie Shepp,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.