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 Romania and from Salvador.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flipper to the electroclash 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June of 44 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Severed Heads,
The Pretty Things,
Model 500,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gichy Dan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Slave,
John Holt,
Donald Byrd,
The J.B.'s,
The Standells,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bauhaus,
Juan Atkins,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
the Human League,
Roger Hodgson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Boogie Down Productions,
Brand Nubian,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sam Rivers,
Mars,
Johnny Clarke,
Thompson Twins,
Ten City,
Peter and Kerry,
MDC,
Stiv Bators,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Pop Group,
Sound Behaviour,
Porter Ricks,
X-102,
Morten Harket,
DJ Style,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The United States of America,
Bob Dylan,
Crime,
Avey Tare,
Cybotron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pylon,
Dennis Brown,
Public Enemy,
Dave Gahan,
Gong,
Blake Baxter,
Wasted Youth,
Yellowson,
Soft Machine,
The Music Machine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Görl,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jesper Dahlback,
kango's stein massive,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.