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 Maldives and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 Aswad to the grime 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 Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grauzone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
The Fortunes,
The Residents,
Whodini,
The American Breed,
Television,
Maurizio,
Davy DMX,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Todd Rundgren,
Liliput,
Joe Smooth,
New Age Steppers,
The Techniques,
The New Christs,
Mars,
Lebanon Hanover,
Brass Construction,
Susan Cadogan,
Neu!,
Symarip,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Vogues,
Section 25,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-101,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Monks,
The Cowsills,
Dave Gahan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Massinfluence,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
The Beau Brummels,
Heaven 17,
Hardrive,
Ken Boothe,
Mantronix,
John Holt,
The Trojans,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Thompson Twins,
Yellowson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
ABBA,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Y Pants,
Tomorrow,
UT,
Radiohead,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.