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 Rwanda and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 snare 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 Quantec to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Sixth Finger,
Sister Nancy,
New Age Steppers,
One Last Wish,
Crooked Eye,
The Names,
Iggy Pop,
the Association,
48th St. Collective,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Unrelated Segments,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Anthony Braxton,
Pierre Henry,
Byron Stingily,
The Dave Clark Five,
David McCallum,
Babytalk,
Mad Mike,
K-Klass,
Al Stewart,
The Searchers,
The Modern Lovers,
PIL,
World's Most,
Leonard Cohen,
Camberwell Now,
The Real Kids,
John Foxx,
Stiv Bators,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Offenders,
The Remains,
Avey Tare,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hashim,
Index,
Scratch Acid,
Scan 7,
The Beau Brummels,
Absolute Body Control,
cv313,
Alison Limerick,
Sight & Sound,
Echospace,
Minutemen,
Half Japanese,
Audionom,
Kas Product,
Section 25,
Brass Construction,
Pylon,
Agitation Free,
June Days,
The Saints,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Drexciya,
Isaac Hayes,
T.S.O.L.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lucky Dragons,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.