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 Syria and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Winnipeg.
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 sitar 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 The Pretty Things to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Eric Copeland,
Flash Fearless,
The Wake,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sugar Minott,
The Smiths,
The Dead C,
ABC,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Gap Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Invisible,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Organ,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eurythmics,
Rites of Spring,
Fela Kuti,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cramps,
Susan Cadogan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cluster,
The Pop Group,
Aloha Tigers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Mojo Men,
Radiohead,
Deepchord,
Hoover,
Con Funk Shun,
Khruangbin,
Terrestrial Tones,
Moss Icon,
The Human League,
Kerri Chandler,
Sound Behaviour,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Girls At Our Best!,
Parry Music,
Maurizio,
Theoretical Girls,
Warren Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalann,
Terry Callier,
Al Stewart,
Bill Near,
B.T. Express,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.