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 Kosovo and from Copenhagen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Kurtis Blow to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 X-Ray Spex. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Zapp,
Public Image Ltd.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lucky Dragons,
Juan Atkins,
Kas Product,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Basic Channel,
The Doors,
Minor Threat,
Mission of Burma,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Normal,
Chrome,
Patti Smith,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Godley & Creme,
The Misunderstood,
Metal Thangz,
The Gories,
The Blues Magoos,
The Shadows of Knight,
Bronski Beat,
Marshall Jefferson,
Scott Walker,
Nico,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Slick Rick,
Japan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Stereo Dub,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Popol Vuh,
The Human League,
The Music Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare,
Guru Guru,
Unwound,
Kerri Chandler,
Agitation Free,
OOIOO,
New Order,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Second Layer,
Wire,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Knickerbockers,
David McCallum,
Sam Rivers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kenny Larkin,
Lightning Bolt,
Wings,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.