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 Micronesia and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Kevin Saunderson to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bang on a Can All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool Moe Dee 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Average White Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Fugs,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dennis Brown,
Peter and Kerry,
Soft Machine,
Boz Scaggs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Frankie Knuckles,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Severed Heads,
Scan 7,
Archie Shepp,
Suicide,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Funkadelic,
Jacob Miller,
Vainqueur,
Girls At Our Best!,
Gichy Dan,
The Durutti Column,
Parry Music,
Crime,
Judy Mowatt,
The Buckinghams,
Donald Byrd,
The New Christs,
Bill Near,
Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Marmalade,
Oneida,
China Crisis,
Organ,
Monks,
Babytalk,
Freddie Wadling,
Stetsasonic,
The Golliwogs,
Barrington Levy,
Reuben Wilson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Absolute Body Control,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donny Hathaway,
Bill Wells,
Los Fastidios,
Scientists,
the Swans,
Wolf Eyes,
The Gap Band,
Minutemen,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Qualms,
X-102,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Agitation Free,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.