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 Vanuatu and from Delhi.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin 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 The Trojans to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Neu!,
the Germs,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare,
Brothers Johnson,
The Modern Lovers,
U.S. Maple,
Lucky Dragons,
Banda Bassotti,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
The Stooges,
The Dirtbombs,
Animal Collective,
Boogie Down Productions,
Quantec,
MDC,
Little Man,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Chrome,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dorothy Ashby,
James White and The Blacks,
Masters at Work,
R.M.O.,
Model 500,
Lakeside,
Eden Ahbez,
the Sonics,
Technova,
Tom Boy,
Brass Construction,
Prince Buster,
Intrusion,
The Star Department,
DNA,
Andrew Hill,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Moody Blues,
Minnie Riperton,
Reagan Youth,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Flag,
Pylon,
Man Parrish,
The New Christs,
Tubeway Army,
Basic Channel,
John Lydon,
Skriet,
Cymande, Cymande, Cymande, Cymande.
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.