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 Indonesia and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
The Index,
X-Ray Spex,
Lakeside,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang Green,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Stooges,
The Birthday Party,
Boz Scaggs,
OOIOO,
Moebius,
Aaron Thompson,
Lou Reed,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
Stetsasonic,
The Skatalites,
Hot Snakes,
Masters at Work,
Reagan Youth,
the Germs,
Alton Ellis,
David Bowie,
Bauhaus,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Thompson Twins,
Eric Copeland,
Magma,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gap Band,
Whodini,
Sex Pistols,
Smog,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Erykah Badu,
the Human League,
cv313,
The Last Poets,
The Techniques,
Sparks,
Aswad,
Lower 48,
The Tremeloes,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Half Japanese,
Johnny Clarke,
Camberwell Now,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Buckinghams,
Vainqueur,
Underground Resistance,
Interpol,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Robert Görl,
New York Dolls,
Los Fastidios,
Black Flag,
The Shadows of Knight,
Silicon Teens,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.