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 Cyprus and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Liaisons Dangereuses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
The Gun Club,
Soul II Soul,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Country Teasers,
10cc,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Lynne,
The Smoke,
Terrestrial Tones,
Juan Atkins,
Gang Starr,
The Litter,
Cal Tjader,
The Gap Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Chrome,
Henry Cow,
Cameo,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bronski Beat,
Jacob Miller,
Au Pairs,
Jawbox,
Icehouse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Durutti Column,
Cluster,
Q and Not U,
Anthony Braxton,
Max Romeo,
The Vogues,
Negative Approach,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bizarre Inc.,
Organ,
Supertramp,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
the Slits,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Soft Cell,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Underground Resistance,
Joey Negro,
Bush Tetras,
R.M.O.,
Matthew Bourne,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Barracudas,
a-ha,
Unwound,
Sarah Menescal,
Infiniti,
The Sound,
D'Angelo,
The Standells,
Masters at Work,
Spandau Ballet,
Interpol,
Magma,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.