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 Mali and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Black Moon to the techno 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 8 Eyed Spy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Little Man,
EPMD,
Scan 7,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
CMW,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dead Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Alphaville,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Selecter,
Drive Like Jehu,
Underground Resistance,
MDC,
Wings,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fad Gadget,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Spandau Ballet,
Blossom Toes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Circle Jerks,
MC5,
Harpers Bizarre,
Moss Icon,
Zero Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Franke,
Bobby Byrd,
Gerry Rafferty,
Patti Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
The Birthday Party,
the Human League,
Lakeside,
The Victims,
Boz Scaggs,
Rod Modell,
The Invisible,
Roy Ayers,
The Remains,
the Swans,
ABC,
10cc,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Joe Smooth,
Skarface,
Tommy Roe,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warren Ellis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Livin' Joy,
Brass Construction,
Gabor Szabo,
Youth Brigade,
Technova,
Sugar Minott,
Altered Images,
Kurtis Blow,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.