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 Grenada and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 Easy Going to the funk 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ponytail record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lakeside,
the Human League,
Kayak,
Scratch Acid,
Faraquet,
Ponytail,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Age Steppers,
The Five Americans,
Flamin' Groovies,
One Last Wish,
Public Enemy,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Reagan Youth,
Ice-T,
Yaz,
Charles Mingus,
Bill Wells,
Ultravox,
The Litter,
Warren Ellis,
The Blackbyrds,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Skriet,
Bobby Sherman,
Siglo XX,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deadbeat,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Magazine,
Qualms,
X-102,
Leonard Cohen,
Moss Icon,
Negative Approach,
Hasil Adkins,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tom Boy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Human League,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Swans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lou Christie,
Wings,
Dennis Brown,
Warsaw,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harry Pussy,
Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop.
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.