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 Monaco and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin 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 Mandrill to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Starr record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Gladiators,
Ultravox,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gong,
Banda Bassotti,
The Victims,
Radiohead,
Rapeman,
Todd Rundgren,
Cecil Taylor,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deakin,
Minor Threat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gang Gang Dance,
Warren Ellis,
Loose Ends,
Robert Görl,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bang On A Can,
Kaleidoscope,
The Seeds,
Wire,
The Angels of Light,
Connie Case,
Lyres,
Soft Cell,
Clear Light,
Josef K,
Peter and Kerry,
The Modern Lovers,
Depeche Mode,
48th St. Collective,
Neil Young,
The Stooges,
Letta Mbulu,
Isaac Hayes,
The United States of America,
Brothers Johnson,
Index,
PIL,
Vladislav Delay,
The Birthday Party,
Shoche,
Avey Tare,
the Association,
Wasted Youth,
The Searchers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bill Near,
R.M.O.,
Pole,
The Music Machine,
Matthew Halsall,
Skaos,
Cybotron,
Sight & Sound,
Pulsallama,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.