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 Ukraine and from Winnipeg.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hashim to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quantec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Copeland,
Sam Rivers,
Quadrant,
Lungfish,
The Moleskins,
ABC,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Monochrome Set,
Accadde A,
Tim Buckley,
Bob Dylan,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Kinks,
Quantec,
Lalann,
Wire,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
LL Cool J,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anthony Braxton,
Juan Atkins,
Harmonia,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Schoolly D,
Y Pants,
Robert Hood,
Blossom Toes,
Public Enemy,
Lucky Dragons,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Barbara Tucker,
Ten City,
The Vogues,
Tres Demented,
Qualms,
Icehouse,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aaron Thompson,
Tomorrow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Real Kids,
The Pretty Things,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Neon Judgement,
Jandek,
Dave Gahan,
Q65,
Morten Harket,
Japan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crash Course in Science,
The Divine Comedy,
New Age Steppers,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.