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 Mauritius and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Black Moon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Brass Construction. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
Nirvana,
Cymande,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gregory Isaacs,
Icehouse,
Babytalk,
Kurtis Blow,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Suicide,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Five Americans,
Jandek,
Fugazi,
Procol Harum,
Gang Gang Dance,
Technova,
Erasure,
Donald Byrd,
Throbbing Gristle,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Young Rascals,
Swell Maps,
Black Flag,
Cal Tjader,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Loose Ends,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crime,
Pole,
Siglo XX,
Scott Walker,
Ultimate Spinach,
Delta 5,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ken Boothe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eli Mardock,
Basic Channel,
Mad Mike,
Los Fastidios,
Roxy Music,
Maleditus Sound,
China Crisis,
Howard Jones,
Public Enemy,
Steve Hackett,
The Sonics,
Jimmy McGriff,
Dorothy Ashby,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
David Bowie,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lightning Bolt,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glenn Branca,
Derrick May,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.