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 Zimbabwe and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 DJ Style 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Saints record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Masters at Work,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Neil Young,
The Velvet Underground,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lungfish,
The Divine Comedy,
Juan Atkins,
The Gories,
Scrapy,
The Gladiators,
Sonic Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
EPMD,
Sight & Sound,
Agent Orange,
The Music Machine,
Unwound,
The Fuzztones,
kango's stein massive,
Q65,
Soft Machine,
Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Saccharine Trust,
Animal Collective,
Soulsonic Force,
Minny Pops,
Outsiders,
Max Romeo,
Trumans Water,
KRS-One,
Panda Bear,
Bill Near,
Tubeway Army,
Cameo,
E-Dancer,
Basic Channel,
Magma,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Index,
The Seeds,
Ten City,
Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Camberwell Now,
The Tremeloes,
Donald Byrd,
Alphaville,
Ice-T,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Blancmange,
The Blues Magoos,
New Order,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.