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 Solomon Islands and from Tehran.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 arpeggiator 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Nick Fraelich,
Marine Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Babytalk,
Cecil Taylor,
Mary Jane Girls,
Blancmange,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Remains,
Johnny Osbourne,
MC5,
Pierre Henry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Trumans Water,
Outsiders,
Saccharine Trust,
Glambeats Corp.,
Television,
Amon Düül II,
Mantronix,
Slave,
Kurtis Blow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
David McCallum,
Surgeon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Charles Mingus,
Second Layer,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nirvana,
Harmonia,
The Skatalites,
Skarface,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eddi Front,
Joyce Sims,
Wire,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cymande,
Pagans,
T.S.O.L.,
Oblivians,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rites of Spring,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Monks,
Faust,
Don Cherry,
In Retrospect,
Soft Cell,
Crooked Eye,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Suicide,
Slick Rick,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.