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 Sierra Leone and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb 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 Pere Ubu to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Delta 5,
DJ Style,
Eden Ahbez,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fat Boys,
The Searchers,
Pierre Henry,
Black Bananas,
The Index,
The American Breed,
This Heat,
Lower 48,
Ponytail,
Jeff Lynne,
Swans,
Skaos,
Gastr Del Sol,
10cc,
Jesper Dahlback,
Radiohead,
Arthur Verocai,
Jandek,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sonics,
Nirvana,
Avey Tare,
Kurtis Blow,
Skarface,
Agent Orange,
Fugazi,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Hoover,
The Misunderstood,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion,
John Foxx,
Wolf Eyes,
a-ha,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Red Krayola,
Surgeon,
The Dead C,
David McCallum,
Pole,
Soft Cell,
Kenny Larkin,
Fatback Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Residents,
Sly & The Family Stone,
MC5,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lindisfarne,
DJ Sneak,
Accadde A,
Massinfluence,
Banda Bassotti,
Althea and Donna,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.