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 Moldova and from Lille.
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 Seoul and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 UT to the dance 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 Junior Murvin. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Hood,
Pantytec,
Curtis Mayfield,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Slick Rick,
Flash Fearless,
Talk Talk,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
AZ,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Womack,
Roy Ayers,
Quantec,
Nico,
Wire,
The Count Five,
Bobby Byrd,
Tubeway Army,
The Vogues,
Pulsallama,
The Kinks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Neon Judgement,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Moss Icon,
The American Breed,
Terry Callier,
Fluxion,
The Remains,
The Moody Blues,
The Durutti Column,
Underground Resistance,
The Associates,
Agitation Free,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bootsy Collins,
OOIOO,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New Age Steppers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Flipper,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Circle Jerks,
Motorama,
Duran Duran,
Agent Orange,
Alton Ellis,
Joy Division,
Marc Almond,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marine Girls,
Masters at Work,
The Dead C,
Pharoah Sanders,
Newcleus,
D'Angelo,
Lalann,
Josef K,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.