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 Hungary and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sexual Harrassment record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
E-Dancer,
The Velvet Underground,
The Fuzztones,
Blake Baxter,
Von Mondo,
Fela Kuti,
Kool Moe Dee,
The United States of America,
Juan Atkins,
Echospace,
Danielle Patucci,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eric Dolphy,
Black Pus,
Skaos,
Magazine,
Flash Fearless,
Ornette Coleman,
Das Ding,
Peter and Kerry,
Todd Rundgren,
Matthew Bourne,
Lightning Bolt,
Siglo XX,
Fat Boys,
Marvin Gaye,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Deepchord,
AZ,
Scion,
Inner City,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Tremeloes,
Gastr Del Sol,
Cecil Taylor,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Pussy Galore,
Mary Jane Girls,
10cc,
Crash Course in Science,
Soft Machine,
Liliput,
Laurel Aitken,
Pantytec,
Yusef Lateef,
Zero Boys,
Minor Threat,
Mr. Review,
Arab on Radar,
T. Rex,
The Barracudas,
Scrapy,
The Selecter,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
MDC,
Flamin' Groovies,
PIL,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.