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 Lille.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 ABBA to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Toasters. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Kerrie Biddell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Golliwogs,
Black Sheep,
The Moleskins,
The Tremeloes,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Nils Olav,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Alison Limerick,
Pagans,
K-Klass,
Hoover,
D'Angelo,
The Martian,
Todd Terry,
The Black Dice,
Moby Grape,
Bill Wells,
Davy DMX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fluxion,
B.T. Express,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
Fat Boys,
Bobby Womack,
Fugazi,
Motorama,
David Axelrod,
Urselle,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Jandek,
Flipper,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Von Mondo,
the Association,
Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minnie Riperton,
Slick Rick,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Schoolly D,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Music Machine,
Easy Going,
Cameo,
Pole,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Smog,
Ponytail,
The Monochrome Set,
Matthew Bourne,
Simply Red,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.