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 Solomon Islands and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Groovy Waters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bush Tetras,
Funky Four + One,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Brass Construction,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Massinfluence,
The Trojans,
Barry Ungar,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Steve Hackett,
Camberwell Now,
Shoche,
Althea and Donna,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Subhumans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Malaria!,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ornette Coleman,
Magma,
Eli Mardock,
Peter & Gordon,
Arthur Verocai,
10cc,
Slick Rick,
Chris Corsano,
The Invisible,
F. McDonald,
Bob Dylan,
Colin Newman,
Toni Rubio,
Boredoms,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gong,
Scrapy,
Altered Images,
The American Breed,
8 Eyed Spy,
Parry Music,
Stetsasonic,
Soft Cell,
Section 25,
U.S. Maple,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Dead C,
Big Daddy Kane,
Eric Dolphy,
Lakeside,
Derrick May,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Banda Bassotti,
Amon Düül,
Simply Red,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Judy Mowatt,
Blancmange,
Arcadia,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.