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 Korea North 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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
James White and The Blacks,
Warren Ellis,
Matthew Bourne,
The Count Five,
Moebius,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agitation Free,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Outsiders,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Fortunes,
Banda Bassotti,
Crooked Eye,
Blancmange,
John Holt,
Ronnie Foster,
Pole,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Grandmaster Flash,
Kool Moe Dee,
Guru Guru,
Niagra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Von Mondo,
Fad Gadget,
Archie Shepp,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lou Reed,
Silicon Teens,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Parry Music,
Duran Duran,
John Coltrane,
Godley & Creme,
New Order,
Ponytail,
Alton Ellis,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Panda Bear,
Siglo XX,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pantytec,
Tropical Tobacco,
UT,
Gong,
Deepchord,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nirvana,
Jacob Miller,
Fugazi,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Christie,
Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Smog,
Max Romeo,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.