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 Iran and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Easy Going to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Can 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
The Sonics,
Mantronix,
Johnny Clarke,
Clear Light,
Sällskapet,
Easy Going,
Aloha Tigers,
The Black Dice,
The Mojo Men,
Lalann,
The Doors,
Section 25,
John Lydon,
Henry Cow,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sister Nancy,
Amon Düül II,
Unrelated Segments,
Scott Walker,
Blancmange,
Jawbox,
The Saints,
Skaos,
Suicide,
Bad Manners,
Morten Harket,
Young Marble Giants,
Blossom Toes,
Peter and Kerry,
Mad Mike,
Radiohead,
Glambeats Corp.,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fad Gadget,
AZ,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Durutti Column,
Sarah Menescal,
John Foxx,
Von Mondo,
Alison Limerick,
Tres Demented,
Kaleidoscope,
The Standells,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The American Breed,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Count Five,
Lou Reed,
Man Eating Sloth,
Main Source,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lakeside,
Man Parrish,
Barrington Levy,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.