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 Burkina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the grime 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 Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Main Source,
Monolake,
The Names,
Gichy Dan,
Anthony Braxton,
MDC,
Wasted Youth,
Ten City,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Easy Going,
Cymande,
Crispian St. Peters,
Minnie Riperton,
Dark Day,
Quadrant,
The Invisible,
Adolescents,
The Cure,
Barbara Tucker,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick May,
Flipper,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q65,
T. Rex,
Nils Olav,
Crash Course in Science,
Vainqueur,
Public Image Ltd.,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Matthew Halsall,
Clear Light,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Duran Duran,
The Dave Clark Five,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Associates,
The Pretty Things,
Darondo,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Babytalk,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Make Up,
Bootsy Collins,
CMW,
Crispy Ambulance,
China Crisis,
Radio Birdman,
The New Christs,
Negative Approach,
Bush Tetras,
Carl Craig,
Mad Mike,
Kerri Chandler,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Faust,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Depeche Mode,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.