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 Guinea and from Taipei.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 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 Slave to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Swans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joy Division,
Dual Sessions,
Simply Red,
E-Dancer,
Agitation Free,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Morten Harket,
The Monochrome Set,
Derrick Morgan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Man Eating Sloth,
D'Angelo,
Make Up,
Vainqueur,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lou Christie,
The Cramps,
Harry Pussy,
kango's stein massive,
Drive Like Jehu,
Section 25,
Roxy Music,
the Bar-Kays,
DNA,
Tears for Fears,
Second Layer,
David McCallum,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Blancmange,
The Happenings,
Ten City,
In Retrospect,
Joey Negro,
Sex Pistols,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Crooked Eye,
Matthew Halsall,
Black Bananas,
Infiniti,
Ultravox,
the Association,
Q and Not U,
Steve Hackett,
Moebius,
The Monks,
DJ Style,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sound,
48th St. Collective,
Marine Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Reagan Youth,
The Gap Band,
Yellowson,
Sonic Youth,
The Gladiators,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.