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 Guinea-Bissau and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Faust to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dawn Penn record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Monochrome Set,
cv313,
Easy Going,
The Fugs,
Swans,
Bluetip,
Surgeon,
The Associates,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
L. Decosne,
Juan Atkins,
Pylon,
DJ Sneak,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anthony Braxton,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rapeman,
Depeche Mode,
The Index,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
Lungfish,
Brass Construction,
Nas,
Agitation Free,
The Busters,
Trumans Water,
Altered Images,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Procol Harum,
The New Christs,
Barclay James Harvest,
H. Thieme,
Siglo XX,
The Smiths,
Kerri Chandler,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronnie Foster,
Marmalade,
CMW,
48th St. Collective,
Nick Fraelich,
Subhumans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bobby Womack,
Gong,
Sam Rivers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Quadrant,
Rhythm & Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Intrusion,
B.T. Express,
Gil Scott Heron,
Quantec,
Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel, Jacques Brel.
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.