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 Botswana and from Columbus.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fad Gadget to the punk 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobbi Humphrey 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a KRS-One record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Flash Fearless,
Main Source,
Jacques Brel,
Morten Harket,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hardrive,
Bluetip,
Chrome,
D'Angelo,
Heaven 17,
The Detroit Cobras,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Arcadia,
Gabor Szabo,
Lyres,
Swell Maps,
Sonic Youth,
Kenny Larkin,
Donald Byrd,
Country Teasers,
The Martian,
The Moody Blues,
Magma,
Deakin,
The Five Americans,
Scan 7,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soft Machine,
Visage,
The Buckinghams,
One Last Wish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Khruangbin,
CMW,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Minny Pops,
Todd Terry,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Toni Rubio,
Sarah Menescal,
Bill Wells,
Second Layer,
Sight & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Technova,
Rosa Yemen,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
the Germs,
Black Sheep,
Tommy Roe,
E-Dancer,
Ohio Players,
the Slits,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.