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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar 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 Jerry's Kids to the rap 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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Make Up record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Residents,
Electric Prunes,
Index,
Scientists,
R.M.O.,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Trojans,
Lungfish,
the Human League,
The Smoke,
Bronski Beat,
The Angels of Light,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Maurizio,
The Pop Group,
Eric B and Rakim,
Easy Going,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sex Pistols,
John Foxx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
UT,
Boz Scaggs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Womack,
Zapp,
Ultra Naté,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stereo Dub,
Sarah Menescal,
the Swans,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deakin,
Black Flag,
Mad Mike,
Eric Dolphy,
Barry Ungar,
Y Pants,
Quando Quango,
Country Teasers,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cramps,
EPMD,
Robert Görl,
Technova,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Television Personalities,
Adolescents,
Quadrant,
Flipper,
Ituana,
Skriet,
Tres Demented,
Oneida,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Arthur Verocai,
The Toasters,
Q and Not U,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Interpol,
Patti Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.
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.