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 Pakistan and from Woodstock.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin 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 Fat Boys to the punk 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cramps,
Lebanon Hanover,
Yusef Lateef,
Buzzcocks,
Fluxion,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
China Crisis,
The Mojo Men,
Roxy Music,
Arab on Radar,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Todd Terry,
Trumans Water,
Section 25,
Juan Atkins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gang Green,
David Bowie,
The Move,
Laurel Aitken,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Talk Talk,
Metal Thangz,
Public Enemy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ultravox,
John Foxx,
Prince Buster,
the Slits,
The New Christs,
Jerry's Kids,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cure,
Reuben Wilson,
Tres Demented,
Iggy Pop,
Robert Hood,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joe Finger,
Funky Four + One,
Bootsy Collins,
B.T. Express,
The Sisters of Mercy,
a-ha,
Make Up,
Skarface,
La Düsseldorf,
Audionom,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Kas Product,
Terry Callier,
Henry Cow,
DNA,
Pierre Henry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gang of Four,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.