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 Israel and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Soft Cell to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Girls At Our Best!,
New Age Steppers,
The Five Americans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Ultra Naté,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker,
Susan Cadogan,
Fugazi,
T. Rex,
Nils Olav,
The Index,
Alison Limerick,
Quantec,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
Ice-T,
Delon & Dalcan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Tears for Fears,
June Days,
Crispian St. Peters,
Half Japanese,
Anthony Braxton,
Von Mondo,
Fatback Band,
Soft Machine,
ABC,
Television Personalities,
Robert Görl,
John Lydon,
Boz Scaggs,
Steve Hackett,
Yazoo,
Niagra,
Rosa Yemen,
Drexciya,
Prince Buster,
The Moleskins,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Desert Stars,
Lebanon Hanover,
Fat Boys,
The Red Krayola,
FM Einheit,
Roger Hodgson,
Absolute Body Control,
Eurythmics,
Derrick May,
Young Marble Giants,
Soul Sonic Force,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Velvet Underground,
Sixth Finger,
James Chance & The Contortions,
a-ha,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.