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 Algeria and from Woodstock.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Urselle to the dance 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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Quantec,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Motions,
Skarface,
the Normal,
Black Flag,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Moody Blues,
Moss Icon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magazine,
Mark Hollis,
the Association,
The Techniques,
Kaleidoscope,
Minor Threat,
Minnie Riperton,
Oneida,
Pantytec,
Leonard Cohen,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Cure,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Drive Like Jehu,
Silicon Teens,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Steve Hackett,
Jeru the Damaja,
Slick Rick,
Jerry's Kids,
Rod Modell,
Absolute Body Control,
Smog,
Accadde A,
Youth Brigade,
Kool Moe Dee,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Swell Maps,
Soft Cell,
CMW,
Radiopuhelimet,
The New Christs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bush Tetras,
Basic Channel,
Donald Byrd,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Doobie Brothers,
Mad Mike,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
June Days,
Duran Duran,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Shadows of Knight,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru,
Niagra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.