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 Taiwan 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Hashim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Archie Shepp,
The Skatalites,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lungfish,
Marc Almond,
Surgeon,
Dorothy Ashby,
The American Breed,
The Mummies,
Warren Ellis,
The Slackers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Faust,
Gregory Isaacs,
Urselle,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joy Division,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ice-T,
The Fuzztones,
Schoolly D,
Wings,
The Walker Brothers,
Don Cherry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Khruangbin,
Public Enemy,
R.M.O.,
June of 44,
The Cure,
Nico,
New Age Steppers,
Unwound,
John Foxx,
F. McDonald,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Desert Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Robert Hood,
Anakelly,
Darondo,
the Sonics,
Althea and Donna,
Echospace,
The Music Machine,
UT,
Tim Buckley,
Sparks,
Tomorrow,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Gap Band,
Pere Ubu,
Circle Jerks,
Ronnie Foster,
David Axelrod,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Glambeats Corp.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Banda Bassotti,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.