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 Lesotho and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harmonia to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All The Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gang Starr,
Los Fastidios,
The Beau Brummels,
The Associates,
Eddi Front,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Slackers,
Matthew Bourne,
Young Marble Giants,
Skarface,
Television,
The Grass Roots,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cramps,
Pierre Henry,
Massinfluence,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lebanon Hanover,
Magma,
Barry Ungar,
Fluxion,
The Blackbyrds,
Amazonics,
Wasted Youth,
Bobby Womack,
Hot Snakes,
Jeff Lynne,
Anakelly,
The Misunderstood,
Aaron Thompson,
The Birthday Party,
Bill Near,
Sonic Youth,
Max Romeo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Golliwogs,
The Velvet Underground,
Visage,
Pussy Galore,
John Lydon,
Sound Behaviour,
K-Klass,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joy Division,
Model 500,
Pharoah Sanders,
Funkadelic,
The Young Rascals,
Erykah Badu,
Basic Channel,
Man Eating Sloth,
Derrick Morgan,
Johnny Osbourne,
Vainqueur,
Marcia Griffiths,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Amon Düül II,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.