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 Brazil and from Bremen.
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 Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Joyce Sims to the jazz 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Graham Central Station,
Drive Like Jehu,
Peter & Gordon,
Fugazi,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Angels of Light,
Yaz,
The Pretty Things,
Cheater Slicks,
Wire,
The Leaves,
Hashim,
Pylon,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Prunes,
Stockholm Monsters,
Tomorrow,
Laurel Aitken,
Altered Images,
Glenn Branca,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pole,
The Slits,
AZ,
June of 44,
Soulsonic Force,
Magma,
The Index,
Boz Scaggs,
Porter Ricks,
Soft Cell,
The Fall,
Girls At Our Best!,
Howard Jones,
Ten City,
Kaleidoscope,
Eve St. Jones,
Clear Light,
Kenny Larkin,
Moss Icon,
Babytalk,
The Gap Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Wasted Youth,
The Walker Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rites of Spring,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Real Kids,
The Move,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Searchers,
Oblivians,
The Alarm Clocks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Man Parrish,
Metal Thangz,
Symarip,
Stereo Dub,
John Lydon,
Minutemen,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.