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 Micronesia and from Halifax.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Hoover to the jazz 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Manfred Mann's Earth Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
Swell Maps,
The Selecter,
Derrick Morgan,
Leonard Cohen,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Zero Boys,
Yazoo,
Scrapy,
Half Japanese,
B.T. Express,
Hashim,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mad Mike,
Joe Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
The Last Poets,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
Soft Cell,
Bluetip,
Minnie Riperton,
Wings,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Misunderstood,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dave Gahan,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Dave Clark Five,
Roger Hodgson,
Johnny Clarke,
Ice-T,
Nation of Ulysses,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Faust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Unwound,
Matthew Halsall,
Arab on Radar,
Soft Machine,
Quadrant,
Ultravox,
Robert Hood,
Inner City,
Outsiders,
Sonic Youth,
The Barracudas,
Rakim,
Los Fastidios,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eli Mardock,
Scion,
Arthur Verocai,
Dual Sessions,
Au Pairs,
Sun Ra,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.