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 United Kingdom and from Accra.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
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 Jandek to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
Q and Not U,
Eric Copeland,
Hasil Adkins,
Mars,
Tropical Tobacco,
Smog,
Lee Hazlewood,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pole,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Excepter,
Blancmange,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Albert Ayler,
Oneida,
The Count Five,
Skaos,
The Walker Brothers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Monochrome Set,
CMW,
Marc Almond,
Marine Girls,
Barbara Tucker,
Quando Quango,
Sister Nancy,
Lungfish,
Moss Icon,
Boz Scaggs,
Rekid,
Aswad,
Maleditus Sound,
Tom Boy,
Nick Fraelich,
Michelle Simonal,
In Retrospect,
Radiopuhelimet,
Audionom,
Stereo Dub,
Ultravox,
Surgeon,
Panda Bear,
Max Romeo,
Royal Trux,
Shuggie Otis,
John Foxx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Babytalk,
The Real Kids,
Easy Going,
Echospace,
Ronan,
Wire,
The New Christs,
The Gories,
Yellowson,
Traffic Nightmare,
James White and The Blacks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
a-ha,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.