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 Fiji and from Milan.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kas Product to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Subhumans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
John Cale,
The Star Department,
Johnny Clarke,
The Index,
Tres Demented,
Donny Hathaway,
Buzzcocks,
The Selecter,
La Düsseldorf,
Accadde A,
Dead Boys,
Chrome,
Man Eating Sloth,
Radiohead,
Popol Vuh,
the Bar-Kays,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Fraelich,
Slave,
The Raincoats,
The Skatalites,
World's Most,
Nik Kershaw,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David Bowie,
Wolf Eyes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Black Flag,
Bob Dylan,
Marc Almond,
Bauhaus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rekid,
Joy Division,
Visage,
Dual Sessions,
Minny Pops,
Deepchord,
James White and The Blacks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Echospace,
Anthony Braxton,
Alton Ellis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Derrick Morgan,
Scan 7,
Pantytec,
The Red Krayola,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
Sam Rivers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
LL Cool J,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.