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 United States and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mexico City.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Dave Clark Five to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 John Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All Mark Hollis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Lower 48,
Wasted Youth,
Nik Kershaw,
Fad Gadget,
Average White Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Velvet Underground,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantaleimon,
Cheater Slicks,
Jerry's Kids,
the Human League,
Von Mondo,
MDC,
Aloha Tigers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slave,
Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Magma,
The Slackers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Fugs,
Man Eating Sloth,
Suicide,
Nick Fraelich,
The Leaves,
June Days,
June of 44,
Pole,
Thee Headcoats,
Jandek,
Kerri Chandler,
Jawbox,
Gichy Dan,
Basic Channel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Oblivians,
Angry Samoans,
Cymande,
Deepchord,
AZ,
The Wake,
Robert Görl,
Howard Jones,
Electric Prunes,
The Alarm Clocks,
Intrusion,
Agitation Free,
The Litter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Khruangbin,
Neu!,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Cure,
Smog,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.