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 Madagascar and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Leaves to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Royal Trux. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Khruangbin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Swans,
Gang Green,
Ronnie Foster,
Agitation Free,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Blossom Toes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Smog,
Chrome,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hoover,
Wire,
Scrapy,
The American Breed,
Moebius,
Eric B and Rakim,
ABBA,
The Fortunes,
Rapeman,
John Coltrane,
Stiv Bators,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABC,
Gong,
Don Cherry,
Black Sheep,
Todd Rundgren,
Ossler,
Nico,
The Fugs,
Ken Boothe,
Model 500,
The Toasters,
Janne Schatter,
Make Up,
Scion,
Camouflage,
Cymande,
Joensuu 1685,
MDC,
Morten Harket,
Youth Brigade,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
Soft Machine,
Jacques Brel,
Leonard Cohen,
The Monochrome Set,
Kas Product,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radio Birdman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Nils Olav,
Crime,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.