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 Slovakia and from London.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Archie Shepp to the crunk 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Janne Schatter,
MC5,
The Black Dice,
a-ha,
Y Pants,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wings,
Marmalade,
Underground Resistance,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jeff Lynne,
Japan,
Negative Approach,
Funkadelic,
R.M.O.,
Ornette Coleman,
Arthur Verocai,
The Offenders,
Mantronix,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Angels of Light,
Quadrant,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Warren Ellis,
The Gladiators,
Roxette,
Lucky Dragons,
Procol Harum,
Slick Rick,
Ossler,
Kerri Chandler,
Scott Walker,
Cal Tjader,
Organ,
David Bowie,
Funky Four + One,
Sarah Menescal,
The Kinks,
John Foxx,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Can,
Sällskapet,
Tropical Tobacco,
Stetsasonic,
Wally Richardson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
the Swans,
Von Mondo,
Josef K,
Lightning Bolt,
These Immortal Souls,
Quantec,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Sonics,
the Germs,
Eric Copeland,
Interpol,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.