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 Kenya and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Howard Jones to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cluster,
Godley & Creme,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Doobie Brothers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Warren Ellis,
Trumans Water,
The Seeds,
Grandmaster Flash,
Isaac Hayes,
Crash Course in Science,
Freddie Wadling,
Mantronix,
The Fall,
Wire,
The Grass Roots,
Iggy Pop,
48th St. Collective,
Janne Schatter,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aaron Thompson,
The Tremeloes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chrome,
kango's stein massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Letta Mbulu,
The Star Department,
Black Sheep,
Johnny Osbourne,
Bobby Byrd,
Curtis Mayfield,
Wings,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Buzzcocks,
ABBA,
The Move,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Livin' Joy,
Outsiders,
Babytalk,
Procol Harum,
Barry Ungar,
Big Daddy Kane,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Starr,
Technova,
Boogie Down Productions,
Shuggie Otis,
Rhythm & Sound,
New Order,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Avey Tare,
MC5,
the Slits,
Fat Boys,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.