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 Czech Republic and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Visage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The American Breed,
Warsaw,
The Happenings,
Frankie Knuckles,
Infiniti,
Masters at Work,
Los Fastidios,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Barclay James Harvest,
Country Teasers,
Stetsasonic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Litter,
Soulsonic Force,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arthur Verocai,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Fraelich,
Joe Smooth,
the Swans,
Donald Byrd,
Thee Headcoats,
Thompson Twins,
Radiohead,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terry Callier,
The Move,
Monolake,
World's Most,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Christie,
Glambeats Corp.,
Babytalk,
Bill Near,
Au Pairs,
Joyce Sims,
the Bar-Kays,
Adolescents,
a-ha,
Prince Buster,
Blancmange,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brick,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Slave,
CMW,
Inner City,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
D'Angelo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Zeros,
Amon Düül II,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Crash Course in Science,
Bad Manners,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.