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 Estonia 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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Sixth Finger to the techno 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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sugar Minott,
Barrington Levy,
Johnny Osbourne,
JFA,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Lydon,
The Offenders,
The Buckinghams,
Cal Tjader,
KRS-One,
Niagra,
Henry Cow,
Vladislav Delay,
Second Layer,
Albert Ayler,
Pussy Galore,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tomorrow,
The Sound,
Gang of Four,
Guru Guru,
Chrome,
Hashim,
Porter Ricks,
John Cale,
Nick Fraelich,
Scion,
Brick,
Masters at Work,
The Move,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Can,
T.S.O.L.,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Hill,
The Cramps,
Agent Orange,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Dawn Penn,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Danielle Patucci,
R.M.O.,
Piero Umiliani,
David Bowie,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sam Rivers,
Theoretical Girls,
Ultravox,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grauzone,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Zapp,
The Vogues,
Donald Byrd,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.