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 Bolivia and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Television to the funk 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ituana,
Cybotron,
Patti Smith,
Joy Division,
Groovy Waters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Blossom Toes,
Bronski Beat,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Index,
Japan,
Toni Rubio,
The Kinks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Monochrome Set,
Eddi Front,
Outsiders,
K-Klass,
The Moody Blues,
the Normal,
The Velvet Underground,
U.S. Maple,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Remains,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Black Sheep,
Yellowson,
Roxette,
Harmonia,
Mark Hollis,
The Young Rascals,
Chrome,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sixth Finger,
Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gregory Isaacs,
Eurythmics,
Ken Boothe,
The Busters,
Black Bananas,
Wasted Youth,
Faust,
Ash Ra Tempel,
E-Dancer,
Warren Ellis,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Babytalk,
Piero Umiliani,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fortunes,
Anakelly,
The Last Poets,
Negative Approach,
Hoover,
Bauhaus,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eli Mardock,
David Bowie,
The Fuzztones,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.