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 Rwanda and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sonny Sharrock to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
T.S.O.L.,
Deadbeat,
The Beau Brummels,
Stereo Dub,
Mark Hollis,
Alison Limerick,
Unrelated Segments,
Letta Mbulu,
Bad Manners,
Sex Pistols,
The Martian,
Ronan,
The Divine Comedy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Music Machine,
Second Layer,
Kurtis Blow,
Peter & Gordon,
ABC,
Sunsets and Hearts,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cabaret Voltaire,
8 Eyed Spy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Yaz,
Michelle Simonal,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mad Mike,
Fela Kuti,
Sonic Youth,
Peter and Kerry,
Gil Scott Heron,
Wire,
Cybotron,
Goldenarms,
Nas,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Steve Hackett,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aaron Thompson,
Moby Grape,
John Lydon,
Maleditus Sound,
X-101,
Robert Hood,
James White and The Blacks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fatback Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Lightning Bolt,
The Barracudas,
The Gories,
Whodini,
Robert Wyatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Iggy Pop,
Arcadia,
kango's stein massive,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.