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 Kyrgyzstan and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lille.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Cure to the techno 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 The Slits. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yellowson,
Aural Exciters,
Q65,
Archie Shepp,
Reuben Wilson,
The Music Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Khruangbin,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Victims,
Matthew Bourne,
The Golliwogs,
Altered Images,
Oneida,
DJ Sneak,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Human League,
Johnny Clarke,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
The Offenders,
Fluxion,
Colin Newman,
Visage,
Rufus Thomas,
R.M.O.,
Country Teasers,
Sun Ra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Model 500,
Morten Harket,
The Stooges,
Deakin,
Brick,
Crash Course in Science,
kango's stein massive,
Faust,
The Gap Band,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Flamin' Groovies,
Banda Bassotti,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Litter,
Jeff Mills,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Mandrill,
Cal Tjader,
Fatback Band,
Ice-T,
The Vogues,
One Last Wish,
Trumans Water,
Camberwell Now,
Swans,
The Smoke,
Scientists,
Aloha Tigers,
Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen, Rosa Yemen.
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.