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 Argentina 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Half Japanese to the grime 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 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 clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Gong,
Ralphi Rosario,
JFA,
The Kinks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Leonard Cohen,
Minnie Riperton,
Delta 5,
Harmonia,
The Moleskins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Marmalade,
The Smoke,
Audionom,
Angry Samoans,
Joey Negro,
Theoretical Girls,
Boredoms,
Ludus,
Scan 7,
Donald Byrd,
Fort Wilson Riot,
T. Rex,
The Buckinghams,
Niagra,
Lalann,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
June Days,
Duran Duran,
Eurythmics,
Quantec,
Zapp,
Yazoo,
Yellowson,
The Sound,
Echospace,
Lyres,
Spandau Ballet,
Man Eating Sloth,
Organ,
Slave,
Easy Going,
Royal Trux,
The Star Department,
Scion,
Roger Hodgson,
Juan Atkins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Massinfluence,
The Victims,
Pere Ubu,
Television Personalities,
Smog,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anthony Braxton,
The Doors,
Erykah Badu,
La Düsseldorf,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.