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 Liberia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pylon to the rap 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Crash Course in Science,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
X-101,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Henry Cow,
Interpol,
The American Breed,
Althea and Donna,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Amazonics,
Lyres,
UT,
the Swans,
Deepchord,
Arcadia,
Patti Smith,
The New Christs,
Royal Trux,
a-ha,
Wire,
Man Eating Sloth,
Aswad,
CMW,
Pagans,
Bobby Womack,
EPMD,
Robert Hood,
Lightning Bolt,
The Black Dice,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Desert Stars,
Gichy Dan,
Camouflage,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
JFA,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Buckinghams,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Prince Buster,
Eddi Front,
Television Personalities,
Eli Mardock,
Throbbing Gristle,
Easy Going,
Roger Hodgson,
Ten City,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The J.B.'s,
Piero Umiliani,
Niagra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bill Wells,
Sandy B,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.