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 Taiwan 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Isaac Hayes to the punk 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Chris & Cosey tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fat Boys,
The Slits,
Nirvana,
MDC,
Lakeside,
Todd Rundgren,
OOIOO,
Khruangbin,
The Techniques,
Pantytec,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Schoolly D,
The Evens,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deakin,
Tom Boy,
The Raincoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ohio Players,
Niagra,
John Foxx,
Andrew Hill,
Iggy Pop,
Kevin Saunderson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
Sarah Menescal,
The Shadows of Knight,
Main Source,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Human League,
Janne Schatter,
Negative Approach,
The Beau Brummels,
Massinfluence,
Archie Shepp,
John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minor Threat,
The Cowsills,
Anthony Braxton,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eurythmics,
Fugazi,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rekid,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Don Cherry,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Bad Manners,
Q and Not U,
The Monks,
Rakim,
Ultra Naté,
Youth Brigade,
Thee Headcoats,
The Smoke,
Eve St. Jones,
Mo-Dettes,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.