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 Dominican Republic and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Grass Roots to the jazz 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan 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 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 an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
The Skatalites,
Camouflage,
The Monochrome Set,
Terrestrial Tones,
Magazine,
Grauzone,
Negative Approach,
The Motions,
Idris Muhammad,
Reuben Wilson,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Howard Jones,
The Names,
the Normal,
John Cale,
The Gories,
Babytalk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Laurel Aitken,
Alphaville,
The Fire Engines,
Erasure,
Deakin,
Boredoms,
The United States of America,
The Fugs,
Little Man,
L. Decosne,
Mandrill,
The Count Five,
Bad Manners,
Model 500,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Fat Boys,
Kerri Chandler,
Alice Coltrane,
ABC,
Monolake,
Nas,
H. Thieme,
R.M.O.,
Tommy Roe,
Das Ding,
Rod Modell,
The Gladiators,
Animal Collective,
Stiv Bators,
Quadrant,
Jimmy McGriff,
Absolute Body Control,
Roxette,
The Young Rascals,
Cymande,
The Grass Roots,
Lakeside,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Average White Band,
Ultravox,
Al Stewart,
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield, Curtis Mayfield.
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.