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 Tanzania and from Madrid.
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 Manila and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 cv313 to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arthur Verocai,
cv313,
the Human League,
The Shadows of Knight,
Absolute Body Control,
Symarip,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Seeds,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Red Krayola,
The Tremeloes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Rosa Yemen,
Half Japanese,
Colin Newman,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Depeche Mode,
Wasted Youth,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül II,
The Black Dice,
Derrick Morgan,
Groovy Waters,
KRS-One,
Section 25,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Fire Engines,
Bronski Beat,
The Doors,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Deadbeat,
Joe Finger,
Junior Murvin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Andrew Hill,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed,
Gichy Dan,
Donald Byrd,
Monolake,
Joensuu 1685,
Albert Ayler,
David McCallum,
Inner City,
Deakin,
H. Thieme,
Lalann,
Yazoo,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Bar-Kays,
The Standells,
the Swans,
New York Dolls,
Ken Boothe,
a-ha,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slackers,
The Evens,
Icehouse,
Marc Almond,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.