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 Ireland and from Madrid.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Crispian St. Peters to the dance 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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Q65,
Barrington Levy,
Sonic Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Bush Tetras,
Darondo,
Index,
Saccharine Trust,
Newcleus,
The Beau Brummels,
Stereo Dub,
The Music Machine,
The Smoke,
Erasure,
Television Personalities,
Joe Smooth,
Hashim,
Danielle Patucci,
Marshall Jefferson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Archie Shepp,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Easy Going,
Lucky Dragons,
Joyce Sims,
The Wake,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dawn Penn,
The Toasters,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minutemen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Warsaw,
Scientists,
Jesper Dahlback,
Circle Jerks,
Joey Negro,
Robert Hood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mantronix,
Monolake,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Guru Guru,
Man Parrish,
Rites of Spring,
Kenny Larkin,
DNA,
Absolute Body Control,
Bobby Womack,
Vladislav Delay,
Visage,
Yusef Lateef,
The Mummies,
the Soft Cell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun City Girls,
Nik Kershaw,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.