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 Uzbekistan and from Jakarta.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Chrome to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Freddie Wadling. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Brick,
Radiopuhelimet,
Boredoms,
Essential Logic,
Ituana,
Country Teasers,
Adolescents,
Rakim,
Marcia Griffiths,
Das Ding,
Kevin Saunderson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Lyres,
Jandek,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Lalann,
Leonard Cohen,
Dennis Brown,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Siglo XX,
Danielle Patucci,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Motions,
The Cure,
Todd Rundgren,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Colin Newman,
Echospace,
Bill Wells,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter & Gordon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Interpol,
Young Marble Giants,
Dave Gahan,
Roxette,
Grauzone,
Donald Byrd,
The Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Depeche Mode,
kango's stein massive,
Anthony Braxton,
Gastr Del Sol,
Faust,
Robert Wyatt,
Mantronix,
Maleditus Sound,
Alphaville,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jeff Lynne,
8 Eyed Spy,
Wolf Eyes,
Dual Sessions,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.