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 New Zealand and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 Lightning Bolt to the crunk 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 Pulsallama. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Yazoo,
Aloha Tigers,
The Red Krayola,
Flash Fearless,
Throbbing Gristle,
China Crisis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Golliwogs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ludus,
Panda Bear,
Infiniti,
Unrelated Segments,
Alison Limerick,
Second Layer,
Mark Hollis,
Sound Behaviour,
Lee Hazlewood,
Minor Threat,
T.S.O.L.,
Althea and Donna,
Barrington Levy,
Boredoms,
Flamin' Groovies,
Marc Almond,
Kurtis Blow,
Cal Tjader,
Reuben Wilson,
The Blues Magoos,
John Foxx,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bauhaus,
The Tremeloes,
Crooked Eye,
Big Daddy Kane,
These Immortal Souls,
FM Einheit,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Skatalites,
the Germs,
Pulsallama,
Au Pairs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pierre Henry,
The Motions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bush Tetras,
Clear Light,
Erykah Badu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ituana,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ohio Players,
Eve St. Jones,
Hoover,
Anakelly,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.