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 Tonga and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
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 linndrum 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 Surgeon to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Excepter 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?
Babytalk,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Al Stewart,
Swans,
Stereo Dub,
Banda Bassotti,
Rufus Thomas,
Guru Guru,
The Sonics,
Moss Icon,
Los Fastidios,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visage,
The Red Krayola,
The Remains,
Circle Jerks,
Faust,
The Tremeloes,
Nik Kershaw,
Minor Threat,
Amazonics,
Fugazi,
John Lydon,
Faraquet,
Godley & Creme,
The Cure,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
the Sonics,
The Last Poets,
Royal Trux,
Andrew Hill,
Mission of Burma,
Yaz,
David McCallum,
Sixth Finger,
Gabor Szabo,
Crash Course in Science,
Don Cherry,
Brass Construction,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Monks,
Zapp,
Ultravox,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marc Almond,
the Association,
Avey Tare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Danielle Patucci,
The Buckinghams,
Boogie Down Productions,
New York Dolls,
Roxette,
Ronan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Human League,
Leonard Cohen,
China Crisis,
Cal Tjader,
Laurel Aitken,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.