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 Kuwait and from Madrid.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 AZ to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drexciya,
Dave Gahan,
Sex Pistols,
Scrapy,
Ten City,
Frankie Knuckles,
Pet Shop Boys,
Severed Heads,
Aswad,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Young Marble Giants,
MC5,
Duran Duran,
The Sonics,
Japan,
The Pop Group,
Shuggie Otis,
Camouflage,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Angels of Light,
Ronnie Foster,
Can,
L. Decosne,
The Smoke,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barbara Tucker,
Sister Nancy,
Deakin,
The Monochrome Set,
Mantronix,
The Buckinghams,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Aural Exciters,
Rekid,
Judy Mowatt,
Chrome,
Lindisfarne,
Massinfluence,
Stetsasonic,
Lucky Dragons,
Sugar Minott,
Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faust,
The Vogues,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Toni Rubio,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Smiths,
Amon Düül,
Franke,
Negative Approach,
Mr. Review,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
FM Einheit,
Derrick Morgan,
Black Sheep,
John Holt,
Neil Young,
Clear Light,
Tim Buckley,
Bobby Sherman,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.