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 Luxembourg and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Smiths to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kayak,
Black Sheep,
The Velvet Underground,
Donald Byrd,
The United States of America,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Faraquet,
Aural Exciters,
Flash Fearless,
Moebius,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sight & Sound,
Piero Umiliani,
Leonard Cohen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Magazine,
Soul II Soul,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Archie Shepp,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jacob Miller,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slick Rick,
Negative Approach,
Scion,
Pylon,
Gang of Four,
Lightning Bolt,
Byron Stingily,
Flamin' Groovies,
Absolute Body Control,
FM Einheit,
Michelle Simonal,
Tim Buckley,
Crime,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funkadelic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minny Pops,
Agitation Free,
Johnny Clarke,
The J.B.'s,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Barracudas,
a-ha,
Glambeats Corp.,
Moss Icon,
Barbara Tucker,
The Victims,
Connie Case,
Smog,
Sex Pistols,
Lindisfarne,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Pop Group,
The Last Poets,
Al Stewart,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.