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 Mongolia and from Milan.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
China Crisis,
Metal Thangz,
OOIOO,
The Evens,
Tubeway Army,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lalann,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
L. Decosne,
Sight & Sound,
Nas,
Rosa Yemen,
The Human League,
Thompson Twins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Duran Duran,
Slick Rick,
Josef K,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ituana,
Amon Düül II,
The Monochrome Set,
Main Source,
The Sound,
The Stooges,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Techniques,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Remains,
Unwound,
The Pop Group,
Symarip,
Lungfish,
Half Japanese,
Pole,
the Soft Cell,
Laurel Aitken,
Liliput,
The Fugs,
Intrusion,
Von Mondo,
Pagans,
Black Sheep,
The Vogues,
Quando Quango,
Soft Cell,
Lucky Dragons,
ABBA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jandek,
Eric Dolphy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dark Day,
Bluetip,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Doobie Brothers,
Jerry's Kids,
Reagan Youth,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.