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 New Zealand and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar 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 Eurythmics to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ken Boothe,
Rapeman,
The Vogues,
Ornette Coleman,
Sound Behaviour,
Swell Maps,
Agitation Free,
Radiopuhelimet,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shoche,
Davy DMX,
Brand Nubian,
One Last Wish,
Connie Case,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang of Four,
Interpol,
Loose Ends,
Arthur Verocai,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
U.S. Maple,
Rites of Spring,
Index,
Nils Olav,
Arab on Radar,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mandrill,
Pulsallama,
Aural Exciters,
The Durutti Column,
E-Dancer,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Quando Quango,
Andrew Hill,
The Techniques,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moss Icon,
The Litter,
the Sonics,
Hoover,
Symarip,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Los Fastidios,
The Birthday Party,
Negative Approach,
Massinfluence,
The Wake,
Rod Modell,
Fat Boys,
Stetsasonic,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minny Pops,
Crispian St. Peters,
K-Klass,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.