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 Germany and from Milan.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Iggy Pop to the rap 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Faraquet,
Arcadia,
Warren Ellis,
Deadbeat,
Hot Snakes,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Leaves,
Black Flag,
The New Christs,
Sex Pistols,
The Human League,
Jeff Mills,
Neu!,
Aloha Tigers,
Rufus Thomas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Rotary Connection,
Minnie Riperton,
Ronan,
The Invisible,
Zapp,
Television Personalities,
The Neon Judgement,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Pierre Henry,
Joey Negro,
The Count Five,
The Blues Magoos,
Rosa Yemen,
Scan 7,
The Fugs,
Eve St. Jones,
Black Pus,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Doors,
Wire,
The Barracudas,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Amon Düül,
Pole,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Janne Schatter,
Johnny Clarke,
Danielle Patucci,
Scott Walker,
Quantec,
the Slits,
DJ Style,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Laurel Aitken,
T.S.O.L.,
Junior Murvin,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.