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 New Zealand and from Calgary.
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 London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Deadbeat to the disco 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deepchord,
Girls At Our Best!,
Donny Hathaway,
Tom Boy,
Interpol,
John Foxx,
These Immortal Souls,
Matthew Halsall,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lebanon Hanover,
Monolake,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Laurel Aitken,
Blake Baxter,
Lucky Dragons,
Patti Smith,
Derrick Morgan,
Cameo,
Eden Ahbez,
Colin Newman,
Sandy B,
Kerrie Biddell,
EPMD,
Ludus,
the Normal,
X-101,
Marshall Jefferson,
KRS-One,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker,
Brand Nubian,
Throbbing Gristle,
Monks,
The Moleskins,
Neil Young,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gabor Szabo,
Talk Talk,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ultimate Spinach,
Unwound,
Maurizio,
Rapeman,
Newcleus,
Index,
Sound Behaviour,
Yazoo,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gun Club,
Yaz,
Subhumans,
Audionom,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Star Department,
The Gories,
Sparks,
La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf, La Düsseldorf.
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.