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 United Kingdom and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Howard Jones to the crunk 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
Alison Limerick,
Banda Bassotti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Marmalade,
Groovy Waters,
Technova,
The Star Department,
Harmonia,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Byron Stingily,
Patti Smith,
Skarface,
Ten City,
Mad Mike,
Josef K,
Essential Logic,
Tom Boy,
The Golliwogs,
Morten Harket,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Index,
Sparks,
Intrusion,
Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Standells,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nik Kershaw,
Black Moon,
Piero Umiliani,
Oblivians,
The Busters,
One Last Wish,
The Doors,
Sight & Sound,
Sun City Girls,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
The Fuzztones,
Wire,
Sugar Minott,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare,
The Five Americans,
Kas Product,
Pylon,
D'Angelo,
T.S.O.L.,
Altered Images,
The Young Rascals,
Eric Copeland,
The Blues Magoos,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.