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 Nauru and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Drive Like Jehu to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Don Cherry. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crooked Eye,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Icehouse,
Robert Görl,
Yazoo,
The Young Rascals,
Kerrie Biddell,
Radiohead,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deakin,
Byron Stingily,
The Martian,
Mandrill,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Mars,
Sixth Finger,
cv313,
The Monochrome Set,
Minny Pops,
David McCallum,
Bang On A Can,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
La Düsseldorf,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Model 500,
Sugar Minott,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ralphi Rosario,
Scion,
Judy Mowatt,
Connie Case,
Aswad,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Thee Headcoats,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joe Finger,
Reagan Youth,
Henry Cow,
Vainqueur,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Fall,
Section 25,
Rosa Yemen,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Wyatt,
Babytalk,
Sonic Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
Suburban Knight,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Blues Magoos,
Brass Construction,
FM Einheit,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.