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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Mexico City.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Judy Mowatt to the dance 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cure,
Quadrant,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Swans,
Neil Young,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Audionom,
Subhumans,
Underground Resistance,
Suicide,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Hashim,
Moby Grape,
Von Mondo,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mojo Men,
Scratch Acid,
Amon Düül II,
The Young Rascals,
Metal Thangz,
Stereo Dub,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sun City Girls,
Michelle Simonal,
The Move,
Ponytail,
Guru Guru,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Youth Brigade,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-101,
Sandy B,
OOIOO,
Slave,
The Walker Brothers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Television,
Johnny Clarke,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Roger Hodgson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Moleskins,
Country Teasers,
B.T. Express,
Whodini,
Tears for Fears,
Lightning Bolt,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dead C,
Sister Nancy,
Cybotron,
X-Ray Spex,
The Associates,
Icehouse,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
10cc,
The Blackbyrds,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.