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 Angola and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 theremin 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agent Orange,
the Human League,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nick Fraelich,
Scott Walker,
The Litter,
The Invisible,
Lower 48,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Infiniti,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Lydon,
Stereo Dub,
Shoche,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nas,
Skriet,
Blake Baxter,
Panda Bear,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cybotron,
Traffic Nightmare,
Juan Atkins,
Popol Vuh,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deadbeat,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boredoms,
The Doors,
Chris & Cosey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
Mandrill,
Tears for Fears,
DJ Style,
Lalo Schifrin,
Jandek,
The Techniques,
Terrestrial Tones,
Davy DMX,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sparks,
Bronski Beat,
FM Einheit,
Dual Sessions,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
Erasure,
The Barracudas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Lee Hazlewood,
Patti Smith,
Soul Sonic Force,
10cc,
Arab on Radar,
Laurel Aitken,
The Offenders,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.