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 Libya and from New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 spring reverb 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 Mission of Burma to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Jawbox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
B.T. Express,
Colin Newman,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Index,
Gang Green,
Nick Fraelich,
Bobby Byrd,
Flipper,
The Trojans,
Suicide,
The Human League,
Echospace,
Lucky Dragons,
The Litter,
Cybotron,
Neu!,
Depeche Mode,
Ultravox,
EPMD,
Blossom Toes,
Unrelated Segments,
Barbara Tucker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
K-Klass,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Gories,
Half Japanese,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cymande,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sandy B,
PIL,
Derrick Morgan,
The Wake,
Robert Görl,
Tubeway Army,
Hardrive,
Brothers Johnson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Glenn Branca,
New Age Steppers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bang On A Can,
The Leaves,
Dave Gahan,
ABBA,
Ponytail,
ABC,
Dennis Brown,
Vainqueur,
Piero Umiliani,
The Motions,
Aaron Thompson,
Skarface,
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.