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 Burundi and from New York.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Joensuu 1685,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Massinfluence,
Urselle,
New York Dolls,
Parry Music,
Boogie Down Productions,
Television,
Dark Day,
EPMD,
Average White Band,
The Names,
Jawbox,
Dennis Brown,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
CMW,
Aloha Tigers,
Desert Stars,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nik Kershaw,
the Sonics,
The Residents,
Neu!,
Deepchord,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Patti Smith,
Technova,
Grey Daturas,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ronnie Foster,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Derrick Morgan,
Echospace,
Arab on Radar,
The Gap Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
the Swans,
Marc Almond,
Interpol,
Brass Construction,
Jesper Dahlback,
Trumans Water,
The Doors,
Maleditus Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
The Blues Magoos,
Chris Corsano,
Eli Mardock,
Babytalk,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Sound,
Loose Ends,
Chris & Cosey,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Camberwell Now,
Zapp,
Max Romeo,
The Sonics,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.