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 Sri Lanka and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pet Shop Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Youth Brigade,
Lalo Schifrin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Big Daddy Kane,
EPMD,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mark Hollis,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Malaria!,
AZ,
The New Christs,
New Age Steppers,
The Golliwogs,
Nas,
The Moleskins,
Skaos,
X-101,
Young Marble Giants,
Index,
Silicon Teens,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Funky Four + One,
Harry Pussy,
Black Sheep,
Visage,
Gang of Four,
Yazoo,
Joyce Sims,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Hood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sex Pistols,
Minnie Riperton,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ken Boothe,
It's A Beautiful Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rhythm & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Davy DMX,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Y Pants,
Japan,
Thee Headcoats,
Rosa Yemen,
Danielle Patucci,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Arcadia,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
Masters at Work,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moss Icon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Duran Duran,
The Alarm Clocks,
Shoche,
The Fortunes,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.