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 Netherlands and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Birthday Party to the punk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Connie Case record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Erykah Badu,
Soft Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terrestrial Tones,
Minor Threat,
Pere Ubu,
R.M.O.,
One Last Wish,
Yellowson,
The Fugs,
The Star Department,
Von Mondo,
John Foxx,
Mission of Burma,
Nas,
The Gories,
Nirvana,
Japan,
Joe Finger,
Nation of Ulysses,
Whodini,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kerri Chandler,
Joy Division,
Lightning Bolt,
Jandek,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
LL Cool J,
Letta Mbulu,
Eve St. Jones,
The Trojans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Michelle Simonal,
10cc,
Adolescents,
The Detroit Cobras,
Khruangbin,
Cluster,
Infiniti,
The Slits,
Fat Boys,
Steve Hackett,
Mantronix,
Davy DMX,
Mark Hollis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Henry Cow,
Anthony Braxton,
Rekid,
Wings,
Judy Mowatt,
Dark Day,
The J.B.'s,
Pole,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.