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 Chile and from Manchester.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Eli Mardock to the dance 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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Motions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Human League,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Cowsills,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Zeros,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mr. Review,
Ludus,
The Toasters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Infiniti,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Leaves,
KRS-One,
Moby Grape,
The Monks,
Average White Band,
The Martian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pere Ubu,
Minutemen,
The Music Machine,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Beau Brummels,
Gichy Dan,
Junior Murvin,
Roxy Music,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
D'Angelo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nas,
The Offenders,
China Crisis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Whodini,
Kerri Chandler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ossler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Funkadelic,
Yellowson,
The Barracudas,
Ponytail,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dark Day,
Max Romeo,
Bush Tetras,
Basic Channel,
Joy Division,
Eyeless In Gaza,
UT,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bad Manners,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Kinks,
Pierre Henry,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.