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 Maldives and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Deadbeat,
Jerry's Kids,
X-Ray Spex,
Carl Craig,
K-Klass,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Fania All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crooked Eye,
Sparks,
Skarface,
Average White Band,
The Smoke,
Quadrant,
Peter and Kerry,
Leonard Cohen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brass Construction,
Japan,
The Golliwogs,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Make Up,
Johnny Osbourne,
Oneida,
Suicide,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marmalade,
The Gap Band,
Ornette Coleman,
Pierre Henry,
Parry Music,
Slave,
CMW,
Magazine,
Suburban Knight,
Maleditus Sound,
The Moleskins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Joe Finger,
Arab on Radar,
Television,
The Trojans,
Wings,
Cecil Taylor,
Surgeon,
Curtis Mayfield,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cameo,
Joy Division,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Graham Central Station,
Sarah Menescal,
Wally Richardson,
Nirvana,
Mantronix,
Slick Rick,
Delta 5,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ralphi Rosario,
New Order,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.