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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 linndrum 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cameo,
Boogie Down Productions,
The J.B.'s,
Minny Pops,
Soulsonic Force,
Ossler,
Amon Düül II,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
Underground Resistance,
Connie Case,
The Litter,
Jeff Lynne,
The Star Department,
X-102,
Letta Mbulu,
Brothers Johnson,
Swell Maps,
Jeff Mills,
Anakelly,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wally Richardson,
Grauzone,
The Wake,
F. McDonald,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ronnie Foster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Warsaw,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bill Near,
Lou Reed,
Depeche Mode,
Joyce Sims,
Jerry's Kids,
Ornette Coleman,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
The Count Five,
PIL,
Jacob Miller,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jimmy McGriff,
Babytalk,
Blossom Toes,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sonic Youth,
Pylon,
Sandy B,
The Barracudas,
Slick Rick,
David Bowie,
Quadrant,
The New Christs,
Subhumans,
John Foxx,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.