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 Zimbabwe and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro 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 Juan Atkins to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barclay James Harvest,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Radiopuhelimet,
Magma,
The Invisible,
Chris & Cosey,
Audionom,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rhythm & Sound,
Banda Bassotti,
Amon Düül,
Radiohead,
R.M.O.,
Young Marble Giants,
Quantec,
The Associates,
Thompson Twins,
Slick Rick,
Danielle Patucci,
Clear Light,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ornette Coleman,
Jimmy McGriff,
Crispy Ambulance,
Toni Rubio,
The Smoke,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Michelle Simonal,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Man Parrish,
Morten Harket,
Fatback Band,
Pussy Galore,
UT,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
This Heat,
Main Source,
The Pretty Things,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ten City,
Boredoms,
Brand Nubian,
Freddie Wadling,
Yazoo,
Sex Pistols,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
Rod Modell,
Sam Rivers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scion,
The Divine Comedy,
Skarface,
Youth Brigade,
The Blues Magoos,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dawn Penn,
Lindisfarne,
Maurizio,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.