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 Korea South and from Jakarta.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 R.M.O. to the jazz 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 the Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
the Germs,
The Young Rascals,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ten City,
Excepter,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sparks,
Morten Harket,
Lucky Dragons,
Dual Sessions,
UT,
Crash Course in Science,
T. Rex,
Neu!,
R.M.O.,
The Standells,
Circle Jerks,
The Index,
Derrick Morgan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Nico,
Peter and Kerry,
Barrington Levy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Clarke,
Flipper,
Groovy Waters,
Von Mondo,
Marc Almond,
Babytalk,
Black Bananas,
T.S.O.L.,
Loose Ends,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fuzztones,
AZ,
Spandau Ballet,
the Sonics,
Franke,
Skriet,
Erasure,
Ronnie Foster,
Steve Hackett,
The Durutti Column,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
Deakin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Fortunes,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Los Fastidios,
Lyres,
Smog,
kango's stein massive,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wire,
Kas Product,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.