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 Maldives and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
The Seeds,
Quando Quango,
Patti Smith,
Jeff Lynne,
Ossler,
the Bar-Kays,
Fatback Band,
Model 500,
Brothers Johnson,
Boz Scaggs,
Arab on Radar,
Mad Mike,
Deepchord,
X-101,
Main Source,
Eric Copeland,
The Birthday Party,
Swell Maps,
Infiniti,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scott Walker,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Anthony Braxton,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Joyce Sims,
Fluxion,
The Offenders,
Archie Shepp,
The Velvet Underground,
Wolf Eyes,
Sister Nancy,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mark Hollis,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rites of Spring,
Mary Jane Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Jimmy McGriff,
These Immortal Souls,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
Faust,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Urselle,
T.S.O.L.,
Electric Prunes,
Black Sheep,
Bluetip,
Glenn Branca,
cv313,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Guru Guru,
Bang On A Can,
Negative Approach,
James White and The Blacks,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.