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 Libya and from Glasgow.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the grunge 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow 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 clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Bronski Beat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marmalade,
Television Personalities,
Judy Mowatt,
Minny Pops,
Alton Ellis,
Rekid,
Pantytec,
Yazoo,
Au Pairs,
The Birthday Party,
Cameo,
DJ Style,
the Normal,
Maleditus Sound,
Das Ding,
Crispian St. Peters,
Soft Machine,
Bill Near,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Alison Limerick,
The Leaves,
EPMD,
Bad Manners,
Barrington Levy,
Henry Cow,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Oblivians,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Shuggie Otis,
DNA,
The American Breed,
Amon Düül II,
Barbara Tucker,
Aural Exciters,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chrome,
The Mighty Diamonds,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABC,
Al Stewart,
FM Einheit,
MDC,
Visage,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Electric Prunes,
Main Source,
Unwound,
Zapp,
Faust,
June of 44,
Animal Collective,
Vainqueur,
Skriet,
Eden Ahbez,
Iggy Pop,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.