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 Sudan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Toronto and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Litter. All the underground hits.
All Bobbi Humphrey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Idris Muhammad,
Jacques Brel,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Man Parrish,
Nik Kershaw,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Neil Young,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
Eden Ahbez,
The Victims,
Fugazi,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
OOIOO,
A Certain Ratio,
The Knickerbockers,
Dual Sessions,
Television Personalities,
Skarface,
Schoolly D,
The American Breed,
Saccharine Trust,
Peter and Kerry,
Niagra,
Animal Collective,
Sarah Menescal,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Tommy Roe,
The Saints,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Neon Judgement,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Soft Machine,
a-ha,
Pylon,
ABBA,
Mo-Dettes,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Make Up,
JFA,
Loose Ends,
Derrick Morgan,
Guru Guru,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bang On A Can,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Shoche,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jeff Mills,
Fat Boys,
Michelle Simonal,
The Angels of Light,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amazonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.