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 Ivory Coast and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer 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 Fad Gadget to the electroclash 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 Max Romeo. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
Joe Smooth,
The Searchers,
Pole,
X-102,
The New Christs,
Television,
Unrelated Segments,
Kerri Chandler,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker,
Leonard Cohen,
Scan 7,
Skarface,
Zapp,
Von Mondo,
Bootsy Collins,
The United States of America,
Technova,
The Gap Band,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Wake,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Standells,
Joe Finger,
The Flesh Eaters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pagans,
Monks,
The Associates,
Panda Bear,
Kurtis Blow,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonic Youth,
Icehouse,
Rufus Thomas,
Trumans Water,
Harmonia,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Evens,
The Fugs,
Absolute Body Control,
The Motions,
Brand Nubian,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick Morgan,
Fluxion,
10cc,
Warsaw,
John Foxx,
Thompson Twins,
Marmalade,
The Dirtbombs,
Nas,
Bobby Sherman,
LL Cool J,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Average White Band,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.