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 Armenia and from Glasgow.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare 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 Funky Four + One to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly 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 grime 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rites of Spring,
Chris Corsano,
The Divine Comedy,
Thee Headcoats,
Eli Mardock,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
Bauhaus,
Rapeman,
Godley & Creme,
Talk Talk,
Organ,
Young Marble Giants,
The Neon Judgement,
Mark Hollis,
Ituana,
Fela Kuti,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Urselle,
Porter Ricks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Whodini,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Delta 5,
Simply Red,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
Bobbi Humphrey,
FM Einheit,
Yellowson,
Flipper,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camouflage,
Janne Schatter,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Erykah Badu,
The Associates,
Outsiders,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Bar-Kays,
Underground Resistance,
Joy Division,
Brick,
Silicon Teens,
Trumans Water,
The American Breed,
The Monks,
Zapp,
Dennis Brown,
Lungfish,
The Gun Club,
The Electric Prunes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Reuben Wilson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.