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 Senegal and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Rosa Yemen to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Chris & Cosey,
David Bowie,
Grauzone,
The Modern Lovers,
Wire,
Severed Heads,
Slick Rick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Saints,
Stetsasonic,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kurtis Blow,
Joensuu 1685,
Suicide,
Harry Pussy,
Television,
Kaleidoscope,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eric Copeland,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Reagan Youth,
Circle Jerks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Swans,
The Offenders,
Technova,
Brick,
Icehouse,
Jeff Lynne,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bill Near,
Minny Pops,
Carl Craig,
F. McDonald,
Prince Buster,
Grey Daturas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Slave,
Howard Jones,
Sällskapet,
Bob Dylan,
Eli Mardock,
The Blues Magoos,
The Barracudas,
Erykah Badu,
Ituana,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Mojo Men,
Ornette Coleman,
Sexual Harrassment,
Pole,
Joe Finger,
Essential Logic,
Colin Newman,
Eurythmics,
AZ,
Derrick May,
Funkadelic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.