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 Cyprus and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and New York.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Intrusion 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 Moebius. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Wake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nirvana,
Reuben Wilson,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Can,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ten City,
The Sonics,
Oblivians,
Derrick Morgan,
Amazonics,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scion,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Moby Grape,
Cameo,
The Smoke,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Clear Light,
B.T. Express,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Connie Case,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Los Fastidios,
The Associates,
The Gladiators,
Be Bop Deluxe,
D'Angelo,
Excepter,
Royal Trux,
KRS-One,
Fatback Band,
Surgeon,
JFA,
The Cowsills,
Gang Starr,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lebanon Hanover,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Y Pants,
These Immortal Souls,
Malaria!,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rakim,
Metal Thangz,
kango's stein massive,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pulsallama,
New Order,
Minnie Riperton,
The Sound, The Sound, The Sound, The Sound.
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.