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 Ukraine and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 the Normal to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Albert Ayler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Jeff Mills,
Robert Wyatt,
Agitation Free,
Index,
The Fuzztones,
ABBA,
Sight & Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Michelle Simonal,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Buzzcocks,
The Vogues,
Nick Fraelich,
AZ,
Ice-T,
Technova,
Drive Like Jehu,
Royal Trux,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yaz,
the Swans,
Rapeman,
Judy Mowatt,
Scientists,
Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Young Rascals,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Faust,
OOIOO,
Scratch Acid,
Kaleidoscope,
The Moleskins,
X-101,
Adolescents,
Johnny Clarke,
Sexual Harrassment,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
T. Rex,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Public Enemy,
Josef K,
Gichy Dan,
Connie Case,
Minutemen,
Charles Mingus,
The Gap Band,
Youth Brigade,
The Angels of Light,
the Germs,
a-ha,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Zapp,
Lucky Dragons,
The Kinks,
Robert Görl,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.