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 Uganda and from Jakarta.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba 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 Sun Ra to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Theoretical Girls,
Janne Schatter,
Jacques Brel,
Motorama,
Delon & Dalcan,
Scan 7,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alton Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crispian St. Peters,
Malaria!,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eric Dolphy,
Stereo Dub,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Skatalites,
These Immortal Souls,
Graham Central Station,
Kerrie Biddell,
Deadbeat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Echospace,
Terry Callier,
Nas,
The Searchers,
Mark Hollis,
Spandau Ballet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Funkadelic,
Oblivians,
Lightning Bolt,
Chris & Cosey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marshall Jefferson,
Buzzcocks,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barrington Levy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Star Department,
Royal Trux,
Alphaville,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quadrant,
Pole,
Kaleidoscope,
John Lydon,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Birthday Party,
Gerry Rafferty,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Derrick May,
Thompson Twins,
Can,
Black Flag,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Circle Jerks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.