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 Indonesia and from Philadelphia.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Holger Czukay 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Sight & Sound,
Pantytec,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
Lebanon Hanover,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Patti Smith,
The Slits,
Kool Moe Dee,
Anthony Braxton,
The Seeds,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Quantec,
Siglo XX,
UT,
the Swans,
Josef K,
Essential Logic,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-102,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
One Last Wish,
Blancmange,
The Martian,
Bad Manners,
Dual Sessions,
MDC,
Hashim,
The United States of America,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiohead,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Carl Craig,
The Cowsills,
Skriet,
Sixth Finger,
The Raincoats,
Mad Mike,
The Index,
Trumans Water,
Tom Boy,
Marc Almond,
Brothers Johnson,
The Mojo Men,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Black Dice,
Derrick May,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Star Department,
New Age Steppers,
Alton Ellis,
Ultra Naté,
Deakin,
Deepchord,
Gong,
The Stooges,
X-101,
Andrew Hill,
Jeff Lynne,
Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur, Vainqueur.
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.