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 Guinea and from Philadelphia.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Malaria! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fifty Foot Hose,
Iggy Pop,
Lucky Dragons,
The Pretty Things,
Suburban Knight,
AZ,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jawbox,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barbara Tucker,
Isaac Hayes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Star Department,
The Victims,
Pussy Galore,
Prince Buster,
X-101,
Tres Demented,
The Stooges,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Electric Prunes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Darondo,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
Mandrill,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sarah Menescal,
Average White Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Radiopuhelimet,
a-ha,
Glenn Branca,
Tubeway Army,
Brass Construction,
John Lydon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Aaron Thompson,
Cameo,
Minnie Riperton,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eli Mardock,
R.M.O.,
Minor Threat,
Pagans,
the Soft Cell,
Soft Cell,
Bush Tetras,
Depeche Mode,
Joyce Sims,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Deakin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
The Fugs,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.