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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Yaz to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Residents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swans,
Dawn Penn,
Eurythmics,
The Buckinghams,
The Durutti Column,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pierre Henry,
OOIOO,
Clear Light,
The Star Department,
Lower 48,
John Foxx,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Toasters,
Shuggie Otis,
The Pop Group,
Radio Birdman,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sex Pistols,
Babytalk,
Little Man,
The Pretty Things,
The Golliwogs,
The Real Kids,
Dark Day,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lightning Bolt,
A Certain Ratio,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ronan,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ronnie Foster,
Donald Byrd,
FM Einheit,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hot Snakes,
Lindisfarne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
John Holt,
Jeff Lynne,
Charles Mingus,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glenn Branca,
Kool Moe Dee,
Index,
Toni Rubio,
The Searchers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rapeman,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Wake,
Grey Daturas,
Black Pus,
Faraquet,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.