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 Bulgaria and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the disco 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 The Sound. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
The Gories,
Warren Ellis,
Delta 5,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wally Richardson,
Young Marble Giants,
Stiv Bators,
Johnny Clarke,
Public Enemy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Charles Mingus,
John Lydon,
Eric Copeland,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Motions,
Echospace,
Glenn Branca,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
X-Ray Spex,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yusef Lateef,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rakim,
Bluetip,
The Durutti Column,
Blancmange,
The Young Rascals,
Hot Snakes,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash,
JFA,
Fluxion,
Mantronix,
EPMD,
Bush Tetras,
Roxy Music,
Basic Channel,
The Divine Comedy,
H. Thieme,
Sugar Minott,
Gang of Four,
The Martian,
The Birthday Party,
X-101,
The Real Kids,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Byrd,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yazoo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
48th St. Collective,
Roy Ayers,
Minnie Riperton,
Stetsasonic,
Section 25,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.