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 Mongolia and from Columbus.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 synthesizer 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 The Black Dice to the dance 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 Bob Dylan. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moby Grape record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Porter Ricks,
Fear,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Selecter,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Cure,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Faust,
Black Sheep,
Tomorrow,
Stiv Bators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Guru Guru,
the Fania All-Stars,
Colin Newman,
One Last Wish,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rakim,
The Five Americans,
LL Cool J,
Harmonia,
Absolute Body Control,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ken Boothe,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Names,
The Velvet Underground,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lebanon Hanover,
John Coltrane,
Pere Ubu,
Mad Mike,
Index,
The Skatalites,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jacob Miller,
Bootsy Collins,
Skarface,
Banda Bassotti,
Anakelly,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pylon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
Radio Birdman,
Oblivians,
The Busters,
Sight & Sound,
Jerry's Kids,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mandrill,
Sonic Youth,
Johnny Clarke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.