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 Gambia and from Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Jerry's Kids to the electroclash 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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
The Count Five,
Soft Cell,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
In Retrospect,
Ohio Players,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gories,
Soul II Soul,
Fear,
Glambeats Corp.,
Nils Olav,
Bang On A Can,
Eve St. Jones,
Cameo,
Ponytail,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The American Breed,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Liliput,
Al Stewart,
Kaleidoscope,
Kas Product,
Gang of Four,
The Gladiators,
Babytalk,
Matthew Halsall,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dawn Penn,
Icehouse,
Anthony Braxton,
Gang Green,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Desert Stars,
UT,
X-102,
Vainqueur,
Marcia Griffiths,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Walker Brothers,
Ituana,
Infiniti,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Osbourne,
Delta 5,
Marine Girls,
Urselle,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Wyatt,
Television,
R.M.O.,
The Star Department,
Swans,
Oblivians,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
Magma,
Scion,
Easy Going,
Von Mondo,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.