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 Australia and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Traffic Nightmare to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DNA,
Eurythmics,
Cluster,
Drive Like Jehu,
Warsaw,
Crime,
Con Funk Shun,
Sound Behaviour,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fortunes,
Bush Tetras,
Pulsallama,
Cybotron,
DJ Style,
Mandrill,
The Index,
X-101,
Los Fastidios,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kaleidoscope,
Buzzcocks,
Sun Ra,
Scrapy,
Dual Sessions,
John Coltrane,
Curtis Mayfield,
Scan 7,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joyce Sims,
Jandek,
Mission of Burma,
The New Christs,
Pussy Galore,
Interpol,
One Last Wish,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Starr,
Connie Case,
The Smiths,
Section 25,
Minnie Riperton,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ronan,
Leonard Cohen,
Max Romeo,
Byron Stingily,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.