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 Denmark and from Copenhagen.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eric Dolphy to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All X-Ray Spex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Hardrive,
Nico,
Alphaville,
Dead Boys,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crime,
The Toasters,
Chris Corsano,
The Smoke,
Crash Course in Science,
Big Daddy Kane,
This Heat,
In Retrospect,
Inner City,
Jandek,
Mantronix,
Eurythmics,
Jesper Dahlback,
Drexciya,
Desert Stars,
Joe Smooth,
Reuben Wilson,
The Selecter,
The Wake,
FM Einheit,
Depeche Mode,
The Gap Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Robert Görl,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Youth Brigade,
CMW,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Guru Guru,
Infiniti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wire,
Skriet,
Sly & The Family Stone,
New Order,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The New Christs,
Joy Division,
Sällskapet,
Nils Olav,
JFA,
John Holt,
Second Layer,
Zapp,
Anakelly,
The Birthday Party,
The Smiths,
Robert Wyatt,
Parry Music,
Pole,
Dual Sessions,
The Mummies,
Television Personalities,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.