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 Laos and from Accra.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Circle Jerks to the grime 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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Idris Muhammad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cameo,
Sparks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Technova,
Tropical Tobacco,
Von Mondo,
Stiv Bators,
The Barracudas,
The Skatalites,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Neu!,
Quadrant,
Masters at Work,
Schoolly D,
The Cowsills,
Kenny Larkin,
Radiohead,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
David Axelrod,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bill Wells,
Grauzone,
Negative Approach,
Au Pairs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Dave Gahan,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
Nik Kershaw,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jeff Mills,
Organ,
Ken Boothe,
X-102,
the Swans,
Silicon Teens,
Scan 7,
Ultra Naté,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Adolescents,
Avey Tare,
La Düsseldorf,
Alton Ellis,
Buzzcocks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barry Ungar,
JFA,
The Saints,
The Evens,
Sixth Finger,
The Leaves,
Boogie Down Productions,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Aloha Tigers,
Leonard Cohen,
Oneida,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.