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 India and from Tehran.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sixth Finger to the crunk 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wire,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Panda Bear,
David McCallum,
Gichy Dan,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Soft Cell,
The Velvet Underground,
Chris & Cosey,
Groovy Waters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Avey Tare,
Davy DMX,
Subhumans,
The Evens,
Sugar Minott,
Jerry's Kids,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Yazoo,
Amon Düül II,
Eric Copeland,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Stooges,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Visage,
Robert Hood,
Grauzone,
X-101,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
OOIOO,
Lower 48,
Marmalade,
Lou Reed,
Livin' Joy,
Vainqueur,
Electric Light Orchestra,
48th St. Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neu!,
a-ha,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Minor Threat,
Reuben Wilson,
Kas Product,
the Slits,
Urselle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dave Gahan,
The Leaves,
The United States of America,
Ronan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Harry Pussy,
Ken Boothe,
Eli Mardock,
Soul II Soul,
Second Layer,
Index,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.