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 Jordan and from Bologna.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Soft Machine to the jazz 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Sun Ra,
The Young Rascals,
Nation of Ulysses,
Erasure,
Aaron Thompson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Bar-Kays,
Babytalk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Loose Ends,
Massinfluence,
Robert Görl,
F. McDonald,
Pylon,
John Holt,
Sun City Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
H. Thieme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Animal Collective,
Deakin,
Sound Behaviour,
Motorama,
Saccharine Trust,
The Names,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Hoover,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Arthur Verocai,
La Düsseldorf,
Sight & Sound,
Black Bananas,
The Selecter,
The Pop Group,
Urselle,
Fugazi,
Pere Ubu,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skaos,
Sparks,
Fatback Band,
Moby Grape,
Darondo,
Jesper Dahlback,
CMW,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Invisible,
Desert Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Negative Approach,
Delta 5,
Joey Negro,
Rufus Thomas,
Spoonie Gee,
Dennis Brown,
Juan Atkins,
Index,
Ponytail,
Supertramp,
Tubeway Army,
Lou Reed,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.