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 Monaco and from London.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Shoche to the electroclash 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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Traffic Nightmare,
Laurel Aitken,
kango's stein massive,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Graham Central Station,
John Coltrane,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Susan Cadogan,
Max Romeo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Motorama,
Ronnie Foster,
Unrelated Segments,
Charles Mingus,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Crime,
the Human League,
Aloha Tigers,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Standells,
Joyce Sims,
Warren Ellis,
Boz Scaggs,
Sam Rivers,
Robert Wyatt,
MDC,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bob Dylan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Loose Ends,
The Motions,
Swell Maps,
Shoche,
Sarah Menescal,
Alton Ellis,
Prince Buster,
Black Sheep,
The Selecter,
the Normal,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Interpol,
Severed Heads,
Be Bop Deluxe,
OOIOO,
Gang Green,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maleditus Sound,
DNA,
Gang Starr,
The Divine Comedy,
Eve St. Jones,
Radiopuhelimet,
Metal Thangz,
John Holt,
The United States of America,
Pet Shop Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fad Gadget,
Organ,
Goldenarms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.