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 Costa Rica and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Soft Machine to the jazz 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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
The Knickerbockers,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scratch Acid,
Liliput,
The Mojo Men,
Spoonie Gee,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marvin Gaye,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bauhaus,
Lou Christie,
Underground Resistance,
Stetsasonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Essential Logic,
Supertramp,
Josef K,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Count Five,
Agitation Free,
The Buckinghams,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joy Division,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Technova,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bizarre Inc.,
Moby Grape,
Dead Boys,
Y Pants,
Gerry Rafferty,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Brothers Johnson,
Davy DMX,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fatback Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Ronan,
Desert Stars,
Loose Ends,
This Heat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scott Walker,
Deakin,
Bush Tetras,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gong,
Second Layer,
Yaz, Yaz, Yaz, Yaz.
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.