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 Iceland and from Columbus.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lalo Schifrin to the punk 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Pulsallama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MC5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Bizarre Inc.,
Derrick Morgan,
Pylon,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eli Mardock,
Danielle Patucci,
Fad Gadget,
The Golliwogs,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Smoke,
Pagans,
Shuggie Otis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Heaven 17,
Silicon Teens,
Joensuu 1685,
Pere Ubu,
Minutemen,
China Crisis,
Althea and Donna,
Icehouse,
The Litter,
John Holt,
The Slackers,
Chris & Cosey,
Roger Hodgson,
Mark Hollis,
The Mojo Men,
Eddi Front,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stiv Bators,
Circle Jerks,
Kaleidoscope,
Shoche,
Chris Corsano,
CMW,
Gang Starr,
Aaron Thompson,
Pierre Henry,
Ken Boothe,
Skaos,
the Slits,
Blake Baxter,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Clear Light,
Derrick May,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Toasters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alison Limerick,
Jeff Lynne,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Monks,
Ultravox,
Sun Ra,
Mary Jane Girls,
Urselle,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Fortunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.