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 Palau and from Columbus.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jandek to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Lindisfarne. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a UT record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Crooked Eye,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Q and Not U,
Eric Dolphy,
Niagra,
Banda Bassotti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Graham Central Station,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kurtis Blow,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Gap Band,
Marmalade,
The Moody Blues,
Echospace,
PIL,
Delon & Dalcan,
Michelle Simonal,
Deepchord,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Barbara Tucker,
The Invisible,
Quantec,
Kerrie Biddell,
Piero Umiliani,
MDC,
Accadde A,
The Real Kids,
Spandau Ballet,
Y Pants,
Black Pus,
Das Ding,
The Stooges,
The Sound,
Scientists,
The Music Machine,
Terry Callier,
The Fire Engines,
Jeff Lynne,
Morten Harket,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Jerry's Kids,
Godley & Creme,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dead Boys,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Victims,
Nirvana,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dead C,
Masters at Work,
Sonny Sharrock,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.