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 Belize and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 CMW to the funk 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin 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 an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Suicide,
Babytalk,
The Pop Group,
Fluxion,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultimate Spinach,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Girls At Our Best!,
Amazonics,
JFA,
Sam Rivers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Tubeway Army,
Porter Ricks,
Dave Gahan,
The Golliwogs,
Cymande,
Groovy Waters,
UT,
Joey Negro,
Roger Hodgson,
Yusef Lateef,
Traffic Nightmare,
Scott Walker,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wire,
Sällskapet,
Inner City,
Suburban Knight,
Scion,
Sight & Sound,
Yaz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pylon,
Scan 7,
Pharoah Sanders,
Juan Atkins,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
E-Dancer,
Yellowson,
Main Source,
Barbara Tucker,
The Trojans,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Byron Stingily,
Deadbeat,
Ohio Players,
Fela Kuti,
The Associates,
Von Mondo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Masters at Work,
Monks,
The Searchers,
cv313,
The Fall,
Marine Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pulsallama,
The Sound,
Sixth Finger,
World's Most,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.