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 St Lucia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 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 Zapp to the grunge 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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Last Poets,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
AZ,
David Axelrod,
The Gap Band,
D'Angelo,
UT,
The Cure,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Nils Olav,
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
Josef K,
Alphaville,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Black Moon,
New Order,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
the Soft Cell,
The Trojans,
Ken Boothe,
Peter & Gordon,
kango's stein massive,
Vladislav Delay,
The Neon Judgement,
Pulsallama,
Donny Hathaway,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
David Bowie,
Roy Ayers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gichy Dan,
Sex Pistols,
Minutemen,
Audionom,
The Velvet Underground,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Move,
Moby Grape,
Howard Jones,
Wire,
The Happenings,
Aloha Tigers,
The Remains,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lower 48,
Technova,
The Searchers,
Sister Nancy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
Camberwell Now,
Underground Resistance,
Letta Mbulu,
Second Layer,
The Names,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.