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 Chile and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and London.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Connie Case to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Basic Channel,
Harmonia,
Roxy Music,
Todd Rundgren,
Ultra Naté,
The Durutti Column,
Sarah Menescal,
Aaron Thompson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Michelle Simonal,
Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Fall,
Yusef Lateef,
PIL,
Lee Hazlewood,
Vladislav Delay,
OOIOO,
Radiohead,
Ultimate Spinach,
Slick Rick,
Joey Negro,
Warsaw,
The Smiths,
Jacob Miller,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Loose Ends,
Magma,
The American Breed,
Soft Cell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Danielle Patucci,
Junior Murvin,
Warren Ellis,
Sun City Girls,
Marine Girls,
The Human League,
Khruangbin,
Can,
CMW,
The Gories,
Suicide,
Crash Course in Science,
Flamin' Groovies,
Angry Samoans,
Anakelly,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
This Heat,
The Zeros,
Lower 48,
Matthew Bourne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Main Source,
Negative Approach,
Hashim,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.