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 Kuwait and from Calgary.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 James White and The Blacks to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalann,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cecil Taylor,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sixth Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
Quando Quango,
The Wake,
Audionom,
June Days,
Skriet,
Sam Rivers,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Janne Schatter,
Mark Hollis,
Reagan Youth,
Pussy Galore,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythm & Sound,
Robert Hood,
The Fire Engines,
Rosa Yemen,
Scientists,
Rotary Connection,
Todd Terry,
Y Pants,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
Danielle Patucci,
Joensuu 1685,
Reuben Wilson,
The Monochrome Set,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cheater Slicks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultra Naté,
Erasure,
Khruangbin,
Bobby Womack,
Brick,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alphaville,
Basic Channel,
Eric Dolphy,
Brand Nubian,
David Bowie,
Josef K,
Lebanon Hanover,
Schoolly D,
Stereo Dub,
The Blues Magoos,
Radiohead,
H. Thieme,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Cure,
Massinfluence,
Ralphi Rosario,
Motorama,
Flash Fearless,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.