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 Sri Lanka and from Lille.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Mark Hollis to the jazz 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Slits,
Glambeats Corp.,
Slave,
Reuben Wilson,
Duran Duran,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tom Boy,
John Coltrane,
The Alarm Clocks,
Loose Ends,
The United States of America,
Fifty Foot Hose,
DJ Style,
Man Parrish,
Index,
The Human League,
The Gladiators,
The Sonics,
The Names,
Gil Scott Heron,
Organ,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Human League,
Marc Almond,
Faraquet,
Technova,
John Holt,
the Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Moebius,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Cure,
Urselle,
Erykah Badu,
The Trojans,
Young Marble Giants,
Godley & Creme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Eric Dolphy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Terry,
Danielle Patucci,
Roxy Music,
Gong,
U.S. Maple,
Lee Hazlewood,
Groovy Waters,
Banda Bassotti,
The Star Department,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eurythmics,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.