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 Madagascar 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Japan to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Barrington Levy,
Cluster,
Junior Murvin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Detroit Cobras,
Pere Ubu,
Fatback Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Sun Ra,
Echospace,
Sam Rivers,
Eddi Front,
The Real Kids,
The Slackers,
Q and Not U,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pet Shop Boys,
Amon Düül II,
The Motions,
The Fire Engines,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Slits,
Television,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Susan Cadogan,
Circle Jerks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yusef Lateef,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dave Clark Five,
Jacob Miller,
The Vogues,
KRS-One,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Toasters,
Aloha Tigers,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Guru Guru,
John Foxx,
Hot Snakes,
Rod Modell,
Peter & Gordon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Seeds,
Surgeon,
Reagan Youth,
Newcleus,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantytec,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Josef K,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.