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 Ghana and from Milan.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 R.M.O. to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Detroit Cobras,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
The Fall,
Q and Not U,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scientists,
Traffic Nightmare,
Saccharine Trust,
Isaac Hayes,
The Offenders,
Pulsallama,
Desert Stars,
Harry Pussy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Human League,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
cv313,
Boredoms,
Stiv Bators,
Little Man,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maurizio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Shuggie Otis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Stooges,
Erykah Badu,
Youth Brigade,
Groovy Waters,
The Five Americans,
James White and The Blacks,
Mandrill,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arcadia,
Pylon,
Magazine,
DJ Style,
Wolf Eyes,
Ice-T,
The Moleskins,
Gastr Del Sol,
Crispy Ambulance,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Motorama,
Arthur Verocai,
Maleditus Sound,
The Durutti Column,
Liliput,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
June of 44,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.