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 Kosovo and from Manchester.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 Jacob Miller to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
Morten Harket,
Isaac Hayes,
David Bowie,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
ABBA,
Japan,
The Doors,
Brass Construction,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Swans,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ornette Coleman,
A Certain Ratio,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sonic Youth,
Metal Thangz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Blues Magoos,
Leonard Cohen,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ken Boothe,
Moebius,
The Trojans,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jandek,
Junior Murvin,
The Blackbyrds,
Sällskapet,
Rufus Thomas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jeff Mills,
Boz Scaggs,
The Beau Brummels,
Buzzcocks,
Trumans Water,
Youth Brigade,
Soulsonic Force,
Inner City,
Marshall Jefferson,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Absolute Body Control,
Groovy Waters,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Nick Fraelich,
Stockholm Monsters,
Michelle Simonal,
Don Cherry,
Donny Hathaway,
Camberwell Now,
Fad Gadget,
Wings,
Archie Shepp,
Quadrant,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.