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 Tuvalu and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Drive Like Jehu to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Searchers,
Sparks,
David Bowie,
The Smoke,
Amon Düül II,
Camberwell Now,
Chrome,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
H. Thieme,
The Slackers,
Nik Kershaw,
Jacob Miller,
The Wake,
Motorama,
Newcleus,
Basic Channel,
Surgeon,
Sun Ra,
Roxy Music,
Intrusion,
Quando Quango,
the Bar-Kays,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Circle Jerks,
Wire,
The Fuzztones,
Todd Terry,
Harmonia,
Jawbox,
Excepter,
Bob Dylan,
The Cramps,
Warren Ellis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Qualms,
The Grass Roots,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ice-T,
Groovy Waters,
Boredoms,
OOIOO,
Gang Gang Dance,
Erasure,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Sonics,
Sandy B,
Ronan,
Von Mondo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fela Kuti,
Moss Icon,
The Mummies,
Visage,
Duran Duran,
Bizarre Inc.,
Khruangbin,
Rakim,
Yellowson,
Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops, Minny Pops.
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.