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 Lithuania and from Mexico City.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Sao Paulo.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Main Source to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All Barry Ungar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Alphaville,
The Music Machine,
Donald Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Wyatt,
In Retrospect,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Victims,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New Order,
Half Japanese,
Radiohead,
Hasil Adkins,
Hoover,
Matthew Bourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Model 500,
Echospace,
Pussy Galore,
Radio Birdman,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pylon,
Fela Kuti,
Severed Heads,
Parry Music,
Rosa Yemen,
Wasted Youth,
Leonard Cohen,
Vladislav Delay,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Babytalk,
Chrome,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bad Manners,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yusef Lateef,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
Qualms,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare,
The Gladiators,
Judy Mowatt,
Morten Harket,
The Evens,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Oblivians,
The Cosmic Jokers,
James White and The Blacks,
The Doors,
Ronnie Foster,
Harmonia,
Roxy Music,
Desert Stars,
The Saints,
Rod Modell,
Soul II Soul,
Nik Kershaw,
Susan Cadogan,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.