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 Liberia and from Bremen.
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 Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Davy DMX to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
John Holt,
Television Personalities,
The Selecter,
Deakin,
Smog,
Buzzcocks,
Ossler,
Mantronix,
Moebius,
Eric B and Rakim,
Loose Ends,
Fatback Band,
Royal Trux,
The Fuzztones,
the Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Rod Modell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Das Ding,
The Alarm Clocks,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Franke,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Youth Brigade,
Gang of Four,
One Last Wish,
10cc,
Kayak,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Flag,
Brick,
Easy Going,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Funky Four + One,
Alice Coltrane,
Dark Day,
Cybotron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Iggy Pop,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Trojans,
Johnny Osbourne,
a-ha,
Trumans Water,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Wake,
Letta Mbulu,
Eli Mardock,
The Slackers,
Camberwell Now,
MDC,
The Knickerbockers,
The Toasters,
Donny Hathaway,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.