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 Saudi Arabia and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lyres to the rock 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Residents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fad Gadget record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
OOIOO,
Rapeman,
The New Christs,
Charles Mingus,
Boz Scaggs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Can,
Peter and Kerry,
T.S.O.L.,
The Names,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Alarm Clocks,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Five Americans,
CMW,
Roxette,
Fela Kuti,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rekid,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gang of Four,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
John Holt,
L. Decosne,
Byron Stingily,
Oneida,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Man Parrish,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thompson Twins,
Ohio Players,
R.M.O.,
Tim Buckley,
the Germs,
Agitation Free,
Blossom Toes,
Jacob Miller,
Derrick Morgan,
Nico,
Agent Orange,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Alton Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
Anthony Braxton,
Suburban Knight,
Porter Ricks,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül,
Juan Atkins,
Brick,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.