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 Nauru and from Lagos.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Josef K to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Crash Course in Science tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Altered Images,
Make Up,
Ituana,
John Foxx,
Gang of Four,
Lungfish,
Fear,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Henry Cow,
Amon Düül,
Pantytec,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wolf Eyes,
The Smiths,
Barry Ungar,
Mars,
Dark Day,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Searchers,
The Residents,
Severed Heads,
UT,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
June Days,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soft Cell,
Cluster,
Skaos,
Blancmange,
Cheater Slicks,
Simply Red,
Barbara Tucker,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joe Finger,
The Neon Judgement,
Anthony Braxton,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Wells,
X-101,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fugazi,
Tom Boy,
Crooked Eye,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gories,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dave Gahan,
Model 500,
The Invisible,
Bush Tetras,
Mission of Burma,
Bobby Byrd,
Howard Jones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Zeros,
Flipper,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.