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 Vietnam and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Hong Kong.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Index to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Grass Roots record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Knickerbockers,
Nico,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fortunes,
Robert Görl,
Urselle,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aloha Tigers,
Sister Nancy,
Fad Gadget,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Clarke,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dark Day,
Warsaw,
The Litter,
These Immortal Souls,
Essential Logic,
Subhumans,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
Robert Wyatt,
Interpol,
Joe Smooth,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Invisible,
Brothers Johnson,
The Last Poets,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
OOIOO,
Sällskapet,
The J.B.'s,
Rites of Spring,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Chrome,
Livin' Joy,
Barbara Tucker,
Country Teasers,
Ice-T,
Ornette Coleman,
Pantaleimon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Standells,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blossom Toes,
Crash Course in Science,
Pylon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dave Gahan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Spoonie Gee,
Masters at Work,
The Doors,
The Evens,
Zapp,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Quantec,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joensuu 1685,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.