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 Kazakhstan 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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba 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 Fat Boys to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Fluxion,
U.S. Maple,
The Leaves,
Brick,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Theoretical Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
DJ Sneak,
Schoolly D,
Ludus,
Ultravox,
Max Romeo,
Das Ding,
Pulsallama,
Camberwell Now,
Parry Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eden Ahbez,
Vladislav Delay,
Chrome,
The Slits,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Reagan Youth,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Crispian St. Peters,
One Last Wish,
Fugazi,
KRS-One,
Marmalade,
Chris Corsano,
The Cure,
The Angels of Light,
The Misunderstood,
Todd Terry,
Anakelly,
Blake Baxter,
Aaron Thompson,
Absolute Body Control,
The Monochrome Set,
The J.B.'s,
The Neon Judgement,
The Count Five,
Slick Rick,
Banda Bassotti,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Starr,
The Slackers,
Aswad,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pole,
The Doobie Brothers,
Joey Negro,
Sällskapet,
Tears for Fears,
Zapp,
the Association,
Silicon Teens,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic 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.