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 Colombia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 Ultra Naté to the funk 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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Style record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Silicon Teens,
Suburban Knight,
Fad Gadget,
The Gladiators,
The Fuzztones,
The Residents,
Toni Rubio,
The Searchers,
Dave Gahan,
Alphaville,
Wasted Youth,
The American Breed,
The Sonics,
Thee Headcoats,
Girls At Our Best!,
Robert Hood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Altered Images,
The Standells,
Swans,
New Age Steppers,
Tom Boy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
June Days,
Model 500,
Rotary Connection,
The Monochrome Set,
Half Japanese,
The Misunderstood,
The Fall,
Rufus Thomas,
Anakelly,
Rites of Spring,
Public Enemy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra,
Rapeman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Sight & Sound,
The New Christs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sister Nancy,
Lalann,
Bad Manners,
Inner City,
Fela Kuti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
The Names,
Aswad,
Jeru the Damaja,
Grandmaster Flash,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Groovy Waters,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.