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 Brazil and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Tokyo.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hoover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Fad Gadget,
Fluxion,
Amazonics,
The Zeros,
Jeff Mills,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Moon,
The Smiths,
Dennis Brown,
New York Dolls,
The Selecter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
JFA,
Wire,
Rufus Thomas,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ludus,
The Blackbyrds,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Drexciya,
Donald Byrd,
Marine Girls,
Dave Gahan,
Television Personalities,
The American Breed,
Boz Scaggs,
CMW,
Robert Hood,
Marc Almond,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Prince Buster,
Cluster,
Nirvana,
The Sound,
Sparks,
Derrick May,
Cheater Slicks,
Massinfluence,
The Golliwogs,
the Human League,
Mary Jane Girls,
Tom Boy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Womack,
Yaz,
Desert Stars,
Nico,
Procol Harum,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kenny Larkin,
R.M.O.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camouflage,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bronski Beat,
Yusef Lateef,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.