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 Argentina and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the disco 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Matthew Halsall,
Pantaleimon,
Fatback Band,
Eden Ahbez,
The Monochrome Set,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
CMW,
The Kinks,
Flash Fearless,
Mantronix,
Black Bananas,
Boz Scaggs,
Make Up,
World's Most,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Susan Cadogan,
Theoretical Girls,
Section 25,
the Bar-Kays,
Glenn Branca,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Young Marble Giants,
Essential Logic,
Fugazi,
Motorama,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Detroit Cobras,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
D'Angelo,
The Barracudas,
Bill Near,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Fear,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Public Enemy,
Das Ding,
The Music Machine,
Ronan,
Suicide,
Stetsasonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
The Litter,
Robert Wyatt,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ponytail,
Johnny Clarke,
Amon Düül,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Hill,
The Dead C,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flipper,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.