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 Kosovo and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and London.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Chrome 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crooked Eye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Pole,
Neu!,
Radiopuhelimet,
D'Angelo,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Saints,
a-ha,
Man Parrish,
Ituana,
Scan 7,
The Star Department,
Tubeway Army,
Von Mondo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Guru Guru,
Brass Construction,
Pet Shop Boys,
OOIOO,
Mo-Dettes,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cramps,
Aaron Thompson,
Clear Light,
Ice-T,
Junior Murvin,
Matthew Halsall,
ABBA,
The Tremeloes,
One Last Wish,
Slick Rick,
Crispy Ambulance,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moby Grape,
The Birthday Party,
Sparks,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Buckinghams,
Cameo,
Pylon,
Khruangbin,
Danielle Patucci,
Cheater Slicks,
Basic Channel,
Faust,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Subhumans,
The Stooges,
Arthur Verocai,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Skatalites,
the Bar-Kays,
The Durutti Column,
Mars,
The Victims,
Matthew Bourne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joy Division,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.