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 Mongolia and from Houston.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the dance 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Make Up tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Loose Ends,
Agent Orange,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sister Nancy,
E-Dancer,
Stereo Dub,
Nils Olav,
Lou Christie,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Sherman,
Average White Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Angry Samoans,
Bob Dylan,
Essential Logic,
Warren Ellis,
Spandau Ballet,
Swell Maps,
The Move,
Section 25,
Robert Hood,
Joe Finger,
Bauhaus,
Ornette Coleman,
Sandy B,
Hoover,
Tommy Roe,
MDC,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Max Romeo,
Barrington Levy,
Rod Modell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suburban Knight,
Adolescents,
The Fugs,
Darondo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rakim,
The Kinks,
The Cure,
The Young Rascals,
Yusef Lateef,
Joyce Sims,
Don Cherry,
Scratch Acid,
Letta Mbulu,
John Foxx,
The Offenders,
The Divine Comedy,
The Beau Brummels,
R.M.O.,
Carl Craig,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.