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 Malta and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 marimba 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 Todd Terry to the funk 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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Vladislav Delay,
The Doors,
La Düsseldorf,
Negative Approach,
Zero Boys,
Eddi Front,
Franke,
Adolescents,
The Fugs,
Amazonics,
Talk Talk,
Pantaleimon,
Sonic Youth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Cameo,
Ten City,
the Human League,
Scrapy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks,
Soulsonic Force,
Lindisfarne,
Joe Finger,
Depeche Mode,
Avey Tare,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sixth Finger,
Anthony Braxton,
Drexciya,
Oneida,
Mr. Review,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Moody Blues,
Von Mondo,
The Dirtbombs,
The Wake,
Flamin' Groovies,
Subhumans,
The American Breed,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joensuu 1685,
Scientists,
Joyce Sims,
The Young Rascals,
Bauhaus,
The Fortunes,
Trumans Water,
T.S.O.L.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Associates,
Boz Scaggs,
The Raincoats,
Dark Day,
Can,
Jandek,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sight & Sound,
Matthew Bourne,
Johnny Clarke,
Stockholm Monsters,
Letta Mbulu,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Black Dice,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Richard Hell and the Voidoids.
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.