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 Burundi and from New York.
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 Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Glenn Branca,
The Mojo Men,
Heaven 17,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lungfish,
Loose Ends,
T. Rex,
The Cure,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultravox,
Quadrant,
Joe Finger,
Barrington Levy,
Magazine,
Andrew Hill,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Isaac Hayes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Severed Heads,
Urselle,
EPMD,
Pylon,
the Germs,
Maleditus Sound,
Faust,
Cheater Slicks,
OOIOO,
David Axelrod,
The Modern Lovers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Morten Harket,
Second Layer,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
Joensuu 1685,
Funky Four + One,
AZ,
Oneida,
The Golliwogs,
Brass Construction,
Pere Ubu,
Nation of Ulysses,
Wally Richardson,
Eden Ahbez,
Wire,
Sandy B,
Albert Ayler,
Davy DMX,
Sarah Menescal,
The Seeds,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Tremeloes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marvin Gaye,
Hashim,
Barbara Tucker,
Aaron Thompson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Susan Cadogan,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.