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 Czech Republic and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Cybotron to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Country Joe & The Fish,
China Crisis,
Marc Almond,
The Residents,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Parry Music,
The Young Rascals,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cymande,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Smiths,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Slackers,
Stetsasonic,
Amon Düül,
Fad Gadget,
Television,
Peter & Gordon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Avey Tare,
Stereo Dub,
Ice-T,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roxy Music,
Rod Modell,
Dennis Brown,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brass Construction,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Skarface,
Black Pus,
Niagra,
The Raincoats,
Can,
Black Moon,
Scientists,
Ultravox,
Sight & Sound,
Nirvana,
Television Personalities,
Pere Ubu,
Wasted Youth,
Lou Reed,
Barrington Levy,
X-Ray Spex,
DJ Style,
The Fire Engines,
Lightning Bolt,
Warsaw,
The Index,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Smoke,
Das Ding,
Talk Talk,
Hoover,
Kaleidoscope,
Heaven 17,
Flipper,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.