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 Saudi Arabia and from Manchester.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eve St. Jones to the rap 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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Joe Smooth,
James White and The Blacks,
Monolake,
Marmalade,
Robert Görl,
Black Pus,
Boredoms,
Scientists,
Smog,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Order,
Gerry Rafferty,
Half Japanese,
The Cure,
Jeff Mills,
Bang On A Can,
Patti Smith,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agent Orange,
Mad Mike,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gregory Isaacs,
Wire,
Altered Images,
Surgeon,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Youth Brigade,
Wally Richardson,
Section 25,
Jawbox,
June of 44,
Crispy Ambulance,
Minutemen,
Matthew Bourne,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Shoche,
Public Enemy,
Howard Jones,
Gang Green,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jesper Dahlback,
Essential Logic,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Womack,
Rotary Connection,
The Dave Clark Five,
Grey Daturas,
Judy Mowatt,
The Divine Comedy,
Junior Murvin,
Severed Heads,
The Cowsills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wolf Eyes,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.