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 Singapore and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet 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 Lower 48 to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pierre Henry,
The Smoke,
New Order,
Bronski Beat,
The Modern Lovers,
Roy Ayers,
Boz Scaggs,
MDC,
The Gladiators,
Aswad,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Youth Brigade,
UT,
Andrew Hill,
Tommy Roe,
The Sonics,
The Searchers,
Unwound,
Absolute Body Control,
Au Pairs,
Saccharine Trust,
Funky Four + One,
Television,
MC5,
Yazoo,
Royal Trux,
Malaria!,
Average White Band,
Godley & Creme,
Isaac Hayes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mo-Dettes,
The Invisible,
Cecil Taylor,
The Birthday Party,
The Grass Roots,
Stiv Bators,
Mandrill,
EPMD,
Aural Exciters,
Scratch Acid,
Junior Murvin,
Glenn Branca,
Nas,
Deepchord,
Gil Scott Heron,
Barrington Levy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric B and Rakim,
Arthur Verocai,
Iggy Pop,
Ossler,
Hoover,
Bobby Womack,
the Swans,
The Monks,
Harmonia,
The Zeros,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.