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 Grenada and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 Roger Hodgson to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Alice Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Essential Logic,
One Last Wish,
Erykah Badu,
Matthew Bourne,
Aural Exciters,
The Zeros,
ABBA,
Roxy Music,
Nirvana,
Bill Near,
Mark Hollis,
Amazonics,
Ludus,
Slick Rick,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Stockholm Monsters,
Arcadia,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
Circle Jerks,
Slave,
The Monks,
World's Most,
Sonic Youth,
Wire,
Dark Day,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jandek,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Pop Group,
Sam Rivers,
Au Pairs,
Brass Construction,
Magma,
The Searchers,
Janne Schatter,
Peter and Kerry,
Youth Brigade,
Leonard Cohen,
Tom Boy,
New Age Steppers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Unwound,
Patti Smith,
Jerry's Kids,
Sex Pistols,
Big Daddy Kane,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doors,
Cymande,
John Foxx,
Fear,
Maleditus Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DNA,
The Gun Club,
John Cale,
Flash Fearless,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.