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 Hungary 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Black Bananas to the dance 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Glenn Branca,
Skaos,
Black Bananas,
Oneida,
Rod Modell,
Boz Scaggs,
PIL,
The Buckinghams,
Youth Brigade,
Moby Grape,
The American Breed,
Warren Ellis,
The Skatalites,
Young Marble Giants,
Max Romeo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Smiths,
Pharoah Sanders,
John Coltrane,
Nils Olav,
Eden Ahbez,
The Standells,
Lakeside,
Ken Boothe,
X-102,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Guru Guru,
Marcia Griffiths,
Roger Hodgson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dorothy Ashby,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marmalade,
Duran Duran,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pussy Galore,
Unrelated Segments,
Mary Jane Girls,
Eddi Front,
Infiniti,
Agitation Free,
The Litter,
Ossler,
Cluster,
Fat Boys,
Basic Channel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
R.M.O.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Slackers,
Deakin,
Aaron Thompson,
H. Thieme,
Stetsasonic,
Fad Gadget,
the Soft Cell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rhythm & Sound,
La Düsseldorf,
L. Decosne,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.