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 Congo and from Mumbai.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Faust to the crunk 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 Grey Daturas. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Oblivians,
Harmonia,
The Young Rascals,
The Walker Brothers,
Cluster,
ABC,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
Mandrill,
the Sonics,
X-102,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Mark Hollis,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yaz,
Carl Craig,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Normal,
Scrapy,
Easy Going,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Soft Cell,
Bronski Beat,
EPMD,
This Heat,
The Gap Band,
Delta 5,
Fad Gadget,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Womack,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gichy Dan,
The Fortunes,
Minor Threat,
Jacob Miller,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marmalade,
The Toasters,
Darondo,
X-101,
Erasure,
The Grass Roots,
The Fugs,
Dave Gahan,
Sun Ra,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Audionom,
Ronan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Swell Maps,
Thee Headcoats,
Neu!,
the Human League,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fire Engines,
Ossler,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.