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 Equatorial Guinea and from Mumbai.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Gories to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
The Gun Club,
Robert Görl,
Morten Harket,
Delta 5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed,
Theoretical Girls,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Livin' Joy,
Grey Daturas,
Sällskapet,
Sugar Minott,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Alarm Clocks,
Girls At Our Best!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Womack,
Newcleus,
Ronnie Foster,
Todd Rundgren,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Music Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Andrew Hill,
Absolute Body Control,
Hasil Adkins,
Moby Grape,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lucky Dragons,
Janne Schatter,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fuzztones,
Sonic Youth,
Spoonie Gee,
The Human League,
Joey Negro,
The Smiths,
Japan,
the Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
The Mojo Men,
PIL,
Camberwell Now,
Warsaw,
the Soft Cell,
U.S. Maple,
Guru Guru,
Susan Cadogan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Thompson Twins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Average White Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Funky Four + One,
The Tremeloes,
the Germs,
Simply Red,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.