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 Andorra 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Soft Machine to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Bourne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Lightning Bolt,
The Smoke,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jawbox,
The Human League,
Josef K,
Sparks,
Sound Behaviour,
Stockholm Monsters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fear,
U.S. Maple,
Marmalade,
Young Marble Giants,
The Blackbyrds,
Easy Going,
Talk Talk,
Pere Ubu,
Graham Central Station,
Radio Birdman,
John Foxx,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dave Gahan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Music Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Black Pus,
Minor Threat,
Sun City Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
MC5,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Pretty Things,
Popol Vuh,
The Walker Brothers,
Section 25,
Warsaw,
Toni Rubio,
The Fortunes,
Rapeman,
Blossom Toes,
Fugazi,
Aaron Thompson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
ABBA,
Accadde A,
The Litter,
the Normal,
Heaven 17,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Dead C,
D'Angelo,
Subhumans,
Cluster,
Echospace,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.