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 Egypt and from Mexico City.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Chris & Cosey to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sixth Finger 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Alton Ellis,
Magma,
The Seeds,
Altered Images,
Marcia Griffiths,
DNA,
Joensuu 1685,
Marmalade,
Rod Modell,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ituana,
The Sonics,
Adolescents,
Basic Channel,
Marvin Gaye,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
Janne Schatter,
Fugazi,
Sam Rivers,
R.M.O.,
Laurel Aitken,
John Coltrane,
New Order,
Bobby Sherman,
Quadrant,
Unwound,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jacques Brel,
Nirvana,
Black Bananas,
Fat Boys,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Eden Ahbez,
The Slackers,
Wings,
Ken Boothe,
Kas Product,
Toni Rubio,
Erykah Badu,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
The Offenders,
The Smiths,
The Cramps,
Marc Almond,
Visage,
Sparks,
Quantec,
Isaac Hayes,
Technova,
The Cure,
Derrick May,
Outsiders,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.