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 Macedonia and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Icehouse to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Simply Red. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Bush Tetras,
Bobby Byrd,
The Velvet Underground,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
Kurtis Blow,
Bob Dylan,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bill Near,
Amon Düül,
K-Klass,
Patti Smith,
Icehouse,
DJ Sneak,
The Tremeloes,
Jacob Miller,
Quadrant,
Section 25,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultra Naté,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dennis Brown,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Angels of Light,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Visage,
Glenn Branca,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brick,
Idris Muhammad,
Vladislav Delay,
Infiniti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gories,
The Last Poets,
Sällskapet,
Absolute Body Control,
Inner City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Avey Tare,
Letta Mbulu,
Minor Threat,
Jerry's Kids,
Yusef Lateef,
Junior Murvin,
Fear,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
Cecil Taylor,
John Coltrane,
Slave,
Yazoo,
Bronski Beat,
The Fugs,
Nick Fraelich,
The Count Five,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.