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 Iraq and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cymande to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Pet Shop Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Monochrome Set,
Liliput,
The Young Rascals,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Dennis Brown,
John Lydon,
Barrington Levy,
Eric Copeland,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sight & Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Black Sheep,
Terry Callier,
Wire,
Eddi Front,
Underground Resistance,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Dead C,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Robert Hood,
Nik Kershaw,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tommy Roe,
Malaria!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Q65,
the Germs,
Althea and Donna,
Skaos,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Normal,
Barbara Tucker,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mandrill,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
AZ,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
Kaleidoscope,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sonics,
OOIOO,
Archie Shepp,
the Slits,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blossom Toes,
Scientists,
The J.B.'s,
The Gories,
Albert Ayler,
Sandy B,
Kayak,
Babytalk,
The Fortunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.