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 Bangladesh and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
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 Josef K to the crunk 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rekid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sun Ra,
Loose Ends,
Curtis Mayfield,
Tommy Roe,
The Gories,
Kerri Chandler,
Anakelly,
June Days,
Sun City Girls,
The Names,
Fela Kuti,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Kinks,
Average White Band,
Alton Ellis,
The Neon Judgement,
The Martian,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oneida,
AZ,
the Germs,
Jacob Miller,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
B.T. Express,
Delta 5,
The Trojans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Lou Christie,
Stiv Bators,
Underground Resistance,
Mo-Dettes,
The Velvet Underground,
Scratch Acid,
Deepchord,
Letta Mbulu,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soul II Soul,
MDC,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Seeds,
Television Personalities,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doors,
Intrusion,
Television,
Dual Sessions,
Marvin Gaye,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.