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 Kazakhstan and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Al Stewart to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun Ra,
Rakim,
Fat Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skarface,
Lower 48,
The Cure,
Frankie Knuckles,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Juan Atkins,
Whodini,
Quando Quango,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Duran Duran,
The Gories,
The Electric Prunes,
Eve St. Jones,
Niagra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Unrelated Segments,
Harpers Bizarre,
Chrome,
The Offenders,
Lakeside,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Hutcherson,
This Heat,
James White and The Blacks,
Jeff Mills,
June Days,
Dead Boys,
Buzzcocks,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Livin' Joy,
Goldenarms,
Danielle Patucci,
Gang Green,
Infiniti,
Amazonics,
A Certain Ratio,
FM Einheit,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mr. Review,
Motorama,
Lou Reed,
Pagans,
Aloha Tigers,
Grey Daturas,
Eddi Front,
Sex Pistols,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Seeds,
David McCallum,
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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.