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 Greece and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cecil Taylor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
The Dead C,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Connie Case,
10cc,
The Mummies,
Sugar Minott,
The Knickerbockers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stockholm Monsters,
T. Rex,
The Slackers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
KRS-One,
Prince Buster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June Days,
Letta Mbulu,
Basic Channel,
Marine Girls,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ice-T,
Kerri Chandler,
Lakeside,
The Star Department,
The Techniques,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Gun Club,
Sun City Girls,
Massinfluence,
Terry Callier,
Godley & Creme,
Sound Behaviour,
Hot Snakes,
Barrington Levy,
John Holt,
Harmonia,
Big Daddy Kane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Magazine,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Busters,
Crash Course in Science,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Associates,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dark Day,
Joe Smooth,
The Fuzztones,
Tropical Tobacco,
Throbbing Gristle,
Malaria!,
Robert Wyatt,
Tears for Fears,
Nick Fraelich,
Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Black Sheep.
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.