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 Oman and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the techno 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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pet Shop Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Fraelich,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Star Department,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arthur Verocai,
The Smoke,
Nas,
AZ,
Magma,
Kerri Chandler,
Wally Richardson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
New Order,
Oblivians,
Ituana,
Patti Smith,
Silicon Teens,
Crooked Eye,
Erykah Badu,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Standells,
Visage,
cv313,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Mars,
Brick,
Zapp,
Lou Christie,
Amazonics,
Michelle Simonal,
Barry Ungar,
China Crisis,
H. Thieme,
Public Enemy,
Roy Ayers,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Gun Club,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Drexciya,
The Cowsills,
Scott Walker,
The Motions,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lindisfarne,
Negative Approach,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Lydon,
Todd Rundgren,
The Techniques,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
OOIOO,
Aaron Thompson,
Sight & Sound,
Harmonia,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.