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 Botswana and from Mexico City.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 New Christs to the disco 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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kaleidoscope record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Altered Images,
In Retrospect,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eurythmics,
Prince Buster,
Matthew Halsall,
10cc,
Icehouse,
Lou Reed,
KRS-One,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Carl Craig,
Masters at Work,
Tres Demented,
Danielle Patucci,
John Lydon,
Monolake,
Delta 5,
The Gap Band,
Minor Threat,
The Blackbyrds,
The Velvet Underground,
The Trojans,
Section 25,
Judy Mowatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Slackers,
Hot Snakes,
Infiniti,
Accadde A,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television Personalities,
The Beau Brummels,
EPMD,
New Order,
Royal Trux,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Make Up,
Jeff Mills,
E-Dancer,
Grauzone,
Adolescents,
Slave,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The New Christs,
Brick,
Barbara Tucker,
Das Ding,
The Knickerbockers,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Metal Thangz,
The Grass Roots,
Duran Duran,
Glenn Branca,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Smog,
PIL,
Magma,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.