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 Algeria and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Erasure to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
The Fugs,
Pole,
Sandy B,
K-Klass,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Skatalites,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Christie,
John Cale,
Blake Baxter,
Echospace,
Symarip,
Peter and Kerry,
Severed Heads,
Surgeon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Oblivians,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Model 500,
Japan,
Con Funk Shun,
UT,
Warren Ellis,
The American Breed,
Cecil Taylor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stereo Dub,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Youth Brigade,
Pharoah Sanders,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Royal Trux,
One Last Wish,
Roy Ayers,
June Days,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
Black Bananas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hashim,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Green,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cal Tjader,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rekid,
Y Pants,
Harmonia,
the Sonics,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Standells,
Liliput,
Main Source,
Arab on Radar,
Arcadia,
Marvin Gaye,
Kerri Chandler,
Althea and Donna,
Rapeman,
Delta 5,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.