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 Jamaica and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
The Velvet Underground,
Lou Christie,
Lindisfarne,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Index,
The Offenders,
World's Most,
Flash Fearless,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sister Nancy,
Whodini,
Patti Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
London Community Gospel Choir,
UT,
cv313,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Alice Coltrane,
Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Godley & Creme,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Motorama,
The Grass Roots,
Smog,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gabor Szabo,
Pantytec,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Yellowson,
Babytalk,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Reagan Youth,
Glenn Branca,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
Rufus Thomas,
Pierre Henry,
The Moody Blues,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Danielle Patucci,
Nick Fraelich,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Peter & Gordon,
X-102,
Maurizio,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soft Cell,
Quando Quango,
Pulsallama,
The Zeros,
New Order,
The Seeds,
Yaz,
Gang Starr,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.