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 Burkina and from Lyon.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Depeche Mode to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Interpol,
Organ,
Index,
The Fall,
Can,
Malaria!,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rod Modell,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Aloha Tigers,
Bauhaus,
Saccharine Trust,
Ossler,
John Holt,
Barclay James Harvest,
David Bowie,
Cybotron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
John Foxx,
The Doors,
Leonard Cohen,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dawn Penn,
Public Image Ltd.,
Joyce Sims,
The Trojans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Harry Pussy,
X-102,
Chris & Cosey,
Quando Quango,
Alice Coltrane,
Throbbing Gristle,
Tubeway Army,
Japan,
48th St. Collective,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Soulsonic Force,
Anakelly,
Y Pants,
Iggy Pop,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wire,
Piero Umiliani,
The Angels of Light,
Black Moon,
Quantec,
Gabor Szabo,
The Grass Roots,
Livin' Joy,
cv313,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Massinfluence,
Graham Central Station,
John Coltrane,
Matthew Bourne,
Nas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Delta 5,
Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon, Surgeon.
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.