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 Vanuatu and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 rhodes 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 Peter & Gordon to the crunk 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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Cymande,
Stiv Bators,
The Fugs,
Rites of Spring,
Charles Mingus,
Radiohead,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Sparks,
Fela Kuti,
The Neon Judgement,
Nico,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Y Pants,
Dave Gahan,
Bush Tetras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fugazi,
Surgeon,
Minny Pops,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry's Kids,
Liliput,
The Barracudas,
These Immortal Souls,
Sarah Menescal,
Lucky Dragons,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ken Boothe,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Aswad,
The Raincoats,
Country Teasers,
D'Angelo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kayak,
Symarip,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Techniques,
John Foxx,
Aural Exciters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Slackers,
Joey Negro,
Blossom Toes,
T.S.O.L.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Johnny Clarke,
New Order,
Pole,
The Associates,
Robert Wyatt,
Icehouse,
Minor Threat,
Gang Green,
The Stooges,
L. Decosne,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.