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 Switzerland and from Tehran.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 June Days to the techno 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
Charles Mingus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Amazonics,
Black Pus,
David Axelrod,
Black Moon,
Little Man,
Loose Ends,
Sun Ra,
Quantec,
the Slits,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ludus,
Kevin Saunderson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Mr. Review,
The Music Machine,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fugs,
The Misunderstood,
Nas,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Grey Daturas,
Ohio Players,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Outsiders,
Underground Resistance,
Ken Boothe,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pere Ubu,
Audionom,
Anakelly,
Avey Tare,
Bad Manners,
Motorama,
Minny Pops,
Youth Brigade,
Kerri Chandler,
Warren Ellis,
Tim Buckley,
James White and The Blacks,
Icehouse,
The Pretty Things,
June Days,
Y Pants,
Eric Dolphy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
Intrusion,
Unwound,
Todd Rundgren,
Procol Harum,
Pantytec,
Camouflage,
CMW,
Radio Birdman,
The Flesh Eaters,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.