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 South Sudan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Glasgow and Portland.
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 808 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 Delta 5 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Searchers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Chrome,
Boredoms,
The Fire Engines,
Maurizio,
the Normal,
Marc Almond,
Piero Umiliani,
Ken Boothe,
Groovy Waters,
Soul II Soul,
New Order,
The Moleskins,
Kenny Larkin,
T. Rex,
FM Einheit,
Gichy Dan,
Darondo,
Erasure,
The Gap Band,
Josef K,
Lungfish,
Eric Dolphy,
The Birthday Party,
Jerry's Kids,
Outsiders,
The Invisible,
Slave,
Crime,
the Swans,
Althea and Donna,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gong,
Prince Buster,
Black Pus,
Mark Hollis,
The Monochrome Set,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
The New Christs,
Das Ding,
Fugazi,
OOIOO,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Cale,
Circle Jerks,
Delta 5,
Massinfluence,
Pantaleimon,
Archie Shepp,
Black Flag,
Easy Going,
Sandy B,
The Dead C,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mr. Review,
The Names,
Minutemen,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.