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 Cameroon 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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 The Angels of Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Audionom,
Janne Schatter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Japan,
The Cure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Fire Engines,
Faust,
Ossler,
U.S. Maple,
OOIOO,
The Names,
Urselle,
Malaria!,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Adolescents,
Derrick May,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grey Daturas,
Patti Smith,
The Fortunes,
Masters at Work,
Letta Mbulu,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Arthur Verocai,
Gang of Four,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Young Rascals,
Arab on Radar,
Bootsy Collins,
Man Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Mojo Men,
The Fall,
UT,
Cal Tjader,
Gang Green,
Half Japanese,
Dark Day,
Peter & Gordon,
Main Source,
Maleditus Sound,
Sixth Finger,
The Residents,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scratch Acid,
The Doors,
Gong,
Panda Bear,
Mantronix,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sister Nancy,
Dennis Brown,
Pagans,
Gichy Dan,
Donny Hathaway,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.