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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 chamberlin 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 U.S. Maple to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Star Department,
Kerri Chandler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Boogie Down Productions,
Slave,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Holt,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Can,
Tubeway Army,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Radiopuhelimet,
Banda Bassotti,
The Fortunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cheater Slicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pharoah Sanders,
T.S.O.L.,
Neil Young,
Procol Harum,
The Fall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Oblivians,
Archie Shepp,
The Kinks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cameo,
Eve St. Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Associates,
The Gun Club,
Lyres,
Guru Guru,
Connie Case,
Nick Fraelich,
Jeru the Damaja,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jeff Mills,
Nik Kershaw,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Durutti Column,
Organ,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
OOIOO,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joe Finger,
Outsiders,
The Gap Band,
Deepchord,
Alice Coltrane,
Chris Corsano,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.