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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Minutemen to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx 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 dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Lynne,
Depeche Mode,
A Certain Ratio,
Trumans Water,
Qualms,
Crispian St. Peters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Aaron Thompson,
Letta Mbulu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Essential Logic,
The Beau Brummels,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Smiths,
Arcadia,
Television Personalities,
The Shadows of Knight,
Graham Central Station,
Pulsallama,
UT,
Colin Newman,
Youth Brigade,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tears for Fears,
Sonic Youth,
Joy Division,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barry Ungar,
The Trojans,
The Wake,
The Mojo Men,
Pantytec,
Main Source,
Fad Gadget,
Pierre Henry,
Scientists,
Stockholm Monsters,
Reagan Youth,
F. McDonald,
Adolescents,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultimate Spinach,
Severed Heads,
Can,
Cal Tjader,
Wasted Youth,
DJ Style,
The Vogues,
Eurythmics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scott Walker,
Mad Mike,
Pussy Galore,
Scan 7,
Donald Byrd,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.