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 Yemen and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hot Snakes to the electroclash 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eric Dolphy,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skaos,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Neil Young,
Bronski Beat,
Sarah Menescal,
cv313,
Deepchord,
Pierre Henry,
Silicon Teens,
Marcia Griffiths,
Monks,
Dead Boys,
Bauhaus,
L. Decosne,
Black Moon,
Minor Threat,
Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang Starr,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brick,
Television Personalities,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Reed,
The Wake,
Dave Gahan,
Scan 7,
Albert Ayler,
Sex Pistols,
The Dirtbombs,
Stockholm Monsters,
Leonard Cohen,
The Black Dice,
Aloha Tigers,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Enemy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Tremeloes,
Lindisfarne,
Make Up,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grey Daturas,
Yaz,
The Names,
Bob Dylan,
Pantytec,
Maleditus Sound,
DNA,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rapeman,
Bootsy Collins,
Urselle, Urselle, Urselle, Urselle.
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.