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 Sierra Leone and from Portland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Camberwell Now to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Average White Band,
E-Dancer,
Jerry's Kids,
Mark Hollis,
Main Source,
Flipper,
KRS-One,
Y Pants,
Television Personalities,
John Lydon,
Marc Almond,
Matthew Bourne,
Yellowson,
Skarface,
The Evens,
Judy Mowatt,
The Vogues,
Mars,
Pantaleimon,
Bill Near,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Reuben Wilson,
The Sonics,
The Velvet Underground,
Sun City Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Moody Blues,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Spandau Ballet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Q65,
The Slackers,
The Doors,
Absolute Body Control,
Negative Approach,
Dave Gahan,
Nils Olav,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Model 500,
Trumans Water,
The Smiths,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Archie Shepp,
John Coltrane,
Tim Buckley,
Adolescents,
The Gories,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pierre Henry,
Black Flag,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dark Day,
The Pretty Things,
Nik Kershaw,
Colin Newman,
David McCallum,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Easy Going,
Supertramp,
Vainqueur,
Fat Boys,
The Knickerbockers,
Johnny Osbourne,
Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith, Patti Smith.
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.