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 France and from Spokane.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 ABC to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Q65 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sam Rivers,
Mission of Burma,
The Saints,
Connie Case,
Suburban Knight,
The Evens,
the Association,
Laurel Aitken,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Sherman,
Jacob Miller,
Glenn Branca,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Dolphy,
Amazonics,
Fat Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
E-Dancer,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Oneida,
Intrusion,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bad Manners,
Bang On A Can,
Soul Sonic Force,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Electric Prunes,
La Düsseldorf,
Television Personalities,
Second Layer,
Marc Almond,
Patti Smith,
Reuben Wilson,
Minny Pops,
Ludus,
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
Scan 7,
Wolf Eyes,
Blossom Toes,
H. Thieme,
Crispian St. Peters,
Bizarre Inc.,
Das Ding,
Surgeon,
Vainqueur,
Young Marble Giants,
Eurythmics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ultravox,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Dark Day,
The Black Dice,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.