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 Ireland and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Shadows of Knight to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
DJ Style,
Chris & Cosey,
The Names,
Moby Grape,
Jacques Brel,
Mandrill,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Swell Maps,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fugs,
Ornette Coleman,
Rosa Yemen,
Toni Rubio,
Moebius,
Q and Not U,
Pulsallama,
Grey Daturas,
Piero Umiliani,
Kurtis Blow,
Idris Muhammad,
The Electric Prunes,
Marmalade,
Fear,
Brass Construction,
ABC,
Eddi Front,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Adolescents,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Interpol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bootsy Collins,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Depeche Mode,
AZ,
Arab on Radar,
Amon Düül,
Lebanon Hanover,
F. McDonald,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Silicon Teens,
Ultravox,
B.T. Express,
Jerry's Kids,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Red Krayola,
R.M.O.,
Thee Headcoats,
Alton Ellis,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Eden Ahbez,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.