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 Cyprus and from Bologna.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 mellotron 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 Q65 to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Mary Jane Girls. All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Country Teasers,
Liliput,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Max Romeo,
The Gories,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Oblivians,
Spandau Ballet,
Tubeway Army,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Busters,
The Litter,
Adolescents,
Cecil Taylor,
Q65,
Prince Buster,
The Velvet Underground,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Cybotron,
Kevin Saunderson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Vogues,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Khruangbin,
Matthew Halsall,
Isaac Hayes,
Peter & Gordon,
The Neon Judgement,
Thompson Twins,
The Smiths,
Hoover,
Outsiders,
Echospace,
Circle Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Alice Coltrane,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slits,
Howard Jones,
Sugar Minott,
Boogie Down Productions,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Monolake,
Janne Schatter,
Cameo,
X-101,
Roxy Music,
Peter and Kerry,
Leonard Cohen,
Lungfish,
Sun Ra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Delta 5,
June of 44,
Agitation Free,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.