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 Japan and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 MDC to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bush Tetras,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Gap Band,
Amazonics,
Lindisfarne,
The Searchers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Dave Gahan,
The Dead C,
Wire,
Big Daddy Kane,
Public Enemy,
Minny Pops,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Christie,
Robert Görl,
Cal Tjader,
Intrusion,
Erasure,
Moebius,
The Black Dice,
Bob Dylan,
Jeff Lynne,
Mantronix,
Scan 7,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Parrish,
Letta Mbulu,
Animal Collective,
Bluetip,
Derrick May,
Los Fastidios,
MDC,
Ken Boothe,
Pole,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Mojo Men,
Easy Going,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Second Layer,
Rites of Spring,
Tim Buckley,
Pylon,
The Doobie Brothers,
OOIOO,
Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
John Holt,
The Birthday Party,
Wally Richardson,
Judy Mowatt,
Stiv Bators,
Gabor Szabo,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Golliwogs,
Kurtis Blow,
The J.B.'s,
Marmalade,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.