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 Burkina and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
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 Beasts of Bourbon to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
Marc Almond,
The Monks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Robert Wyatt,
The Martian,
The Star Department,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Altered Images,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Smog,
ABC,
Colin Newman,
Ten City,
Inner City,
Michelle Simonal,
Yellowson,
Todd Terry,
Anthony Braxton,
Scion,
Robert Hood,
DJ Sneak,
Crime,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lalann,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-Ray Spex,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Residents,
Rapeman,
Circle Jerks,
The Last Poets,
The Doors,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
Sparks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sexual Harrassment,
Hot Snakes,
Schoolly D,
AZ,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Motions,
K-Klass,
UT,
the Bar-Kays,
Quantec,
Erykah Badu,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxette,
Au Pairs,
The Birthday Party,
Pantaleimon,
Stetsasonic,
Thee Headcoats,
The Toasters,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.