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 Micronesia and from Seoul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Tres Demented 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Stooges,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Roxette,
kango's stein massive,
Amon Düül,
The Associates,
David Bowie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Saints,
Essential Logic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Mummies,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Sonics,
Sällskapet,
Girls At Our Best!,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ice-T,
Slick Rick,
Erykah Badu,
Amazonics,
the Swans,
Absolute Body Control,
Patti Smith,
Frankie Knuckles,
Slave,
Lou Reed,
Roy Ayers,
Todd Terry,
The Electric Prunes,
Eurythmics,
Mantronix,
Yusef Lateef,
Bill Wells,
Rod Modell,
Darondo,
Derrick Morgan,
Royal Trux,
Sonic Youth,
Bronski Beat,
Easy Going,
Maleditus Sound,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Little Man,
Zapp,
Procol Harum,
DJ Sneak,
Roger Hodgson,
Deepchord,
Chris & Cosey,
Fatback Band,
EPMD,
Ituana,
The Fuzztones,
Faraquet,
Bizarre Inc.,
10cc,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
R.M.O.,
Parry Music,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.