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 Rwanda and from Portland.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
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 Bizarre Inc. to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Avey Tare,
Au Pairs,
Pantytec,
Deakin,
Q and Not U,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David Bowie,
The Standells,
Neil Young,
T. Rex,
Spoonie Gee,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Last Poets,
the Bar-Kays,
Monolake,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeff Mills,
Lyres,
Jandek,
Nirvana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brick,
Rapeman,
The Fugs,
Ken Boothe,
Lakeside,
Pylon,
Harry Pussy,
Stetsasonic,
Model 500,
The Remains,
Moby Grape,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Aswad,
Flamin' Groovies,
Patti Smith,
Skaos,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Young Rascals,
Minny Pops,
Sparks,
Black Bananas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Chris & Cosey,
Crash Course in Science,
Hardrive,
Janne Schatter,
UT,
Desert Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
Dark Day,
Animal Collective,
Flipper,
Archie Shepp,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.