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 Ghana and from Toronto.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Con Funk Shun to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Gong,
Ronnie Foster,
The Barracudas,
Janne Schatter,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Suburban Knight,
Young Marble Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Smog,
The United States of America,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Unwound,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Barbara Tucker,
Tears for Fears,
the Human League,
the Association,
Soft Machine,
Monolake,
June Days,
Ultravox,
Severed Heads,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rapeman,
Sarah Menescal,
The Music Machine,
The Toasters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Skatalites,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Stooges,
Robert Wyatt,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quando Quango,
The Mojo Men,
The Gun Club,
Joey Negro,
Mars,
The Slackers,
Hasil Adkins,
Babytalk,
China Crisis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stiv Bators,
The Fugs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lakeside,
Albert Ayler,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Sonics,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.