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 Macedonia and from Tokyo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 MDC to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Barry Ungar,
Little Man,
48th St. Collective,
Vladislav Delay,
The Fall,
Schoolly D,
Easy Going,
Lalo Schifrin,
Pulsallama,
Clear Light,
Glenn Branca,
Nas,
Gang Starr,
Brick,
Donald Byrd,
Idris Muhammad,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Wasted Youth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Skatalites,
Sister Nancy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wire,
Jandek,
Yazoo,
Stetsasonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Happenings,
Newcleus,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Searchers,
Fad Gadget,
Al Stewart,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABC,
Erasure,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Moleskins,
The Star Department,
Technova,
Hot Snakes,
Nick Fraelich,
Bad Manners,
Jeru the Damaja,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Alarm Clocks,
Quantec,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Smoke,
Average White Band,
Jawbox,
Blake Baxter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Chris Corsano,
Kenny Larkin,
Davy DMX,
Public Enemy,
X-102,
The Human League,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.