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 Kuwait and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Wasted Youth to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Make Up,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Bauhaus,
Gregory Isaacs,
Laurel Aitken,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soul II Soul,
Rakim,
Danielle Patucci,
Amazonics,
David Bowie,
Schoolly D,
Tom Boy,
The Human League,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Roy Ayers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Janne Schatter,
Scratch Acid,
Funky Four + One,
Man Eating Sloth,
Second Layer,
Fat Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Ludus,
Livin' Joy,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick Morgan,
Underground Resistance,
Supertramp,
Ten City,
X-101,
Warsaw,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Harpers Bizarre,
Barry Ungar,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Motorama,
Popol Vuh,
Quantec,
Bizarre Inc.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deadbeat,
Joe Smooth,
Marvin Gaye,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Slick Rick,
Flipper,
John Lydon,
The Tremeloes,
Judy Mowatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ponytail,
Chrome,
Kaleidoscope,
The Move,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Clear Light,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.