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 France and from Delhi.
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 Paris and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Anthony Braxton to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Associates record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Parry Music,
Slave,
Rapeman,
Aaron Thompson,
Lower 48,
Rotary Connection,
Pierre Henry,
Shoche,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tommy Roe,
Second Layer,
UT,
Kayak,
Circle Jerks,
Wally Richardson,
Ice-T,
Marvin Gaye,
Bad Manners,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Zeros,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Godley & Creme,
10cc,
The Fortunes,
Bush Tetras,
Peter & Gordon,
Swans,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Underground Resistance,
The Slackers,
The Birthday Party,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Essential Logic,
Jeff Lynne,
Deakin,
The Busters,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Prince Buster,
Yusef Lateef,
Technova,
Intrusion,
Mantronix,
Blake Baxter,
The Gories,
Sight & Sound,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Black Moon,
the Swans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jawbox,
Iggy Pop,
Pet Shop Boys,
Isaac Hayes,
Bill Near,
Jacob Miller,
New Order,
Reagan Youth,
Los Fastidios,
Robert Hood,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.