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 Latvia and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 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 Massinfluence to the electroclash 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cymande,
Eddi Front,
Cecil Taylor,
The Saints,
Surgeon,
F. McDonald,
Peter & Gordon,
Leonard Cohen,
Charles Mingus,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ronnie Foster,
The Gap Band,
Ludus,
DJ Style,
Don Cherry,
Terry Callier,
Amon Düül II,
Skaos,
Boz Scaggs,
Hoover,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Make Up,
Index,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eric Dolphy,
The Victims,
Tim Buckley,
Desert Stars,
Aaron Thompson,
The Durutti Column,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Suicide,
Matthew Halsall,
Joyce Sims,
Echospace,
The Young Rascals,
Mr. Review,
Lungfish,
The Sonics,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Andrew Hill,
Yellowson,
Sound Behaviour,
The Misunderstood,
Minny Pops,
Jandek,
Avey Tare,
Sugar Minott,
PIL,
Donny Hathaway,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
Patti Smith,
Black Sheep,
The Last Poets,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.