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 Liechtenstein and from Edmonton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 the Swans to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Swans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Urselle,
the Human League,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cluster,
Sun City Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
Easy Going,
Bronski Beat,
Peter and Kerry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Infiniti,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bauhaus,
La Düsseldorf,
Popol Vuh,
The Birthday Party,
the Bar-Kays,
Flash Fearless,
Crash Course in Science,
Monolake,
Sonic Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Anakelly,
Wire,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sonics,
Spandau Ballet,
Brick,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Warsaw,
Massinfluence,
Moebius,
Magma,
The Gap Band,
Icehouse,
Anthony Braxton,
Wings,
In Retrospect,
Kerri Chandler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Aswad,
MC5,
The Slits,
Lucky Dragons,
Lindisfarne,
Schoolly D,
Marc Almond,
Ronnie Foster,
Rotary Connection,
a-ha,
Clear Light,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deakin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.