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 Russia and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Lou Christie to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythm & Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Newcleus,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Wake,
Quantec,
The Fall,
Massinfluence,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Faust,
The Offenders,
Tears for Fears,
John Holt,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
The Monochrome Set,
Peter & Gordon,
The Music Machine,
Pagans,
Gang of Four,
Black Sheep,
a-ha,
Masters at Work,
Archie Shepp,
Kool Moe Dee,
Von Mondo,
New Order,
Cameo,
Scrapy,
Sällskapet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radiohead,
Clear Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Skatalites,
Jacob Miller,
Glambeats Corp.,
Cecil Taylor,
Deadbeat,
JFA,
Urselle,
Lakeside,
Duran Duran,
Maurizio,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
Robert Hood,
The Raincoats,
Todd Terry,
Bronski Beat,
Brothers Johnson,
Fugazi,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Red Krayola,
Tomorrow,
Icehouse,
The J.B.'s,
Chris & Cosey,
Mad Mike,
Moebius,
Altered Images,
Lyres,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.