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 Uzbekistan and from Winnipeg.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Age Steppers,
Piero Umiliani,
X-102,
Newcleus,
Sällskapet,
Bauhaus,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Barracudas,
Wolf Eyes,
Chrome,
Brass Construction,
Slick Rick,
Ultravox,
The Smiths,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Move,
Los Fastidios,
Godley & Creme,
Zero Boys,
Lyres,
the Human League,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
Cluster,
Skaos,
Jeff Lynne,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Derrick May,
The Slits,
Altered Images,
Erykah Badu,
Lower 48,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Audionom,
The Invisible,
The Names,
The Neon Judgement,
Pharoah Sanders,
Oneida,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nas,
The Victims,
OOIOO,
Mission of Burma,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eddi Front,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Osbourne,
China Crisis,
The Fall,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Pantaleimon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.