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 Mongolia and from Accra.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 The Doors to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All 8 Eyed Spy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Victims,
John Lydon,
Dual Sessions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Von Mondo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Robert Hood,
Darondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Colin Newman,
Y Pants,
Cybotron,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
Make Up,
Sex Pistols,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
One Last Wish,
Main Source,
Minutemen,
Pierre Henry,
The Pretty Things,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Junior Murvin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kerri Chandler,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Gun Club,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Alice Coltrane,
Bizarre Inc.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Association,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Metal Thangz,
Black Pus,
Tomorrow,
Yaz,
Tropical Tobacco,
Flipper,
Spoonie Gee,
Stereo Dub,
John Foxx,
E-Dancer,
Lalann,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Yazoo,
Schoolly D,
Heaven 17,
World's Most,
Bobby Sherman,
Tears for Fears,
Basic Channel,
Thompson Twins,
The J.B.'s,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Moleskins,
The Monochrome Set,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.