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 Kuwait and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bauhaus,
Scion,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Doors,
Iggy Pop,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
Hardrive,
The Red Krayola,
Procol Harum,
The Walker Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
Amazonics,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Blues Magoos,
These Immortal Souls,
Harry Pussy,
Scan 7,
The Raincoats,
Soul II Soul,
The Five Americans,
Jesper Dahlback,
Warsaw,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cecil Taylor,
Youth Brigade,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Surgeon,
Porter Ricks,
Tom Boy,
The Fugs,
Reuben Wilson,
Skriet,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New York Dolls,
Bronski Beat,
Brass Construction,
Silicon Teens,
Sun Ra,
Patti Smith,
The Moleskins,
The Modern Lovers,
Piero Umiliani,
Zero Boys,
Colin Newman,
Deakin,
The Invisible,
Dark Day,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sex Pistols,
Skaos,
Desert Stars,
Lyres,
Basic Channel,
Arcadia,
Graham Central Station,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Hood,
World's Most,
Lalo Schifrin,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.