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 Slovenia and from Delhi.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Peter and Kerry to the rock 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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Accadde A,
Man Parrish,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Sherman,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
D'Angelo,
Eli Mardock,
The Saints,
the Swans,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
Quantec,
Bootsy Collins,
The Slackers,
Wolf Eyes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Flamin' Groovies,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Green,
E-Dancer,
OOIOO,
David Axelrod,
New Age Steppers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Barbara Tucker,
Iggy Pop,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doors,
Todd Rundgren,
Nico,
Don Cherry,
Von Mondo,
Scientists,
The Remains,
the Human League,
Skarface,
8 Eyed Spy,
Japan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Terry Callier,
The Music Machine,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gong,
Eurythmics,
Inner City,
JFA,
Reuben Wilson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Al Stewart,
Barrington Levy,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gladiators,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eddi Front,
Niagra,
Bauhaus,
Liliput,
Eric Copeland,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.