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 Ukraine and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Michelle Simonal to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Theoretical Girls. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mandrill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ornette Coleman,
Colin Newman,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lindisfarne,
Au Pairs,
Gong,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiohead,
Derrick Morgan,
Eve St. Jones,
The American Breed,
Junior Murvin,
The J.B.'s,
Brand Nubian,
Babytalk,
Henry Cow,
Howard Jones,
Niagra,
DNA,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Barrington Levy,
Josef K,
Archie Shepp,
Cecil Taylor,
The Angels of Light,
Rakim,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fall,
Lakeside,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Misunderstood,
The Fuzztones,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Bar-Kays,
These Immortal Souls,
Pet Shop Boys,
Parry Music,
D'Angelo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bobby Byrd,
The Knickerbockers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Thee Headcoats,
Jawbox,
Boredoms,
Underground Resistance,
The Mummies,
Dark Day,
The Real Kids,
Robert Wyatt,
The Techniques,
Yaz,
Letta Mbulu,
Q and Not U,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bronski Beat,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Slits,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.