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 Costa Rica and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 chamberlin 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 Skriet to the dance 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
JFA,
Matthew Halsall,
The Cure,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cybotron,
the Swans,
The Smoke,
Hoover,
Camberwell Now,
K-Klass,
Camouflage,
Soul II Soul,
Mr. Review,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minutemen,
Agent Orange,
the Bar-Kays,
Bob Dylan,
Scan 7,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Kerrie Biddell,
Blossom Toes,
the Soft Cell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tomorrow,
Siglo XX,
Radiohead,
Accadde A,
The Skatalites,
Babytalk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Intrusion,
Public Enemy,
The Seeds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Outsiders,
Eric Dolphy,
The Human League,
Visage,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wings,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minnie Riperton,
Erykah Badu,
Technova,
Rosa Yemen,
Marine Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lou Christie,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sällskapet,
New Age Steppers,
The Selecter,
Ten City,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.