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 Mali and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mark Hollis to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Blossom Toes,
X-101,
Chris & Cosey,
Talk Talk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flipper,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pantytec,
Gil Scott Heron,
Hoover,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mad Mike,
Althea and Donna,
Davy DMX,
The Blackbyrds,
Hasil Adkins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Agent Orange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Wally Richardson,
Don Cherry,
Wolf Eyes,
Model 500,
Section 25,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Funkadelic,
Fugazi,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tears for Fears,
Gregory Isaacs,
10cc,
T.S.O.L.,
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
Thee Headcoats,
Scrapy,
Quando Quango,
Depeche Mode,
Half Japanese,
Robert Görl,
Minutemen,
The Slits,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David McCallum,
Black Pus,
Robert Hood,
T. Rex,
Excepter,
Bush Tetras,
Deepchord,
Lungfish,
Goldenarms,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.