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 Austria and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Joensuu 1685 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Dennis Brown,
The Raincoats,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Crime,
Gerry Rafferty,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Techniques,
Radiopuhelimet,
Supertramp,
New Order,
Public Image Ltd.,
Moebius,
Pierre Henry,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pantaleimon,
Whodini,
Sight & Sound,
Rufus Thomas,
Goldenarms,
James White and The Blacks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bobby Womack,
Wings,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Robert Hood,
Pulsallama,
Mo-Dettes,
The Gun Club,
Porter Ricks,
Schoolly D,
Gabor Szabo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sound,
China Crisis,
Scion,
Technova,
Lucky Dragons,
Barclay James Harvest,
Television Personalities,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Moleskins,
Scrapy,
Amon Düül II,
The Seeds,
Joe Finger,
Scientists,
Echospace,
The Durutti Column,
Fad Gadget,
Godley & Creme,
The American Breed,
Pharoah Sanders,
Junior Murvin,
Gil Scott Heron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gastr Del Sol,
Wolf Eyes,
Shoche, Shoche, Shoche, Shoche.
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.