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 Israel and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fear to the grunge 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Yusef Lateef,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Doors,
Interpol,
Robert Görl,
R.M.O.,
Radiohead,
Chris & Cosey,
Stiv Bators,
Franke,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
The Move,
KRS-One,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Matthew Bourne,
David McCallum,
The Standells,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
Harmonia,
Amon Düül,
Rotary Connection,
Moebius,
Alton Ellis,
Bootsy Collins,
The Neon Judgement,
Freddie Wadling,
Leonard Cohen,
Sex Pistols,
Visage,
cv313,
The Stooges,
Mandrill,
David Bowie,
Guru Guru,
Los Fastidios,
Eve St. Jones,
Toni Rubio,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Electric Prunes,
The Moleskins,
Nils Olav,
Reuben Wilson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Angels of Light,
Pagans,
Brand Nubian,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roxette,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Alison Limerick,
Henry Cow,
Minutemen,
Lightning Bolt,
Glenn Branca,
Laurel Aitken,
B.T. Express,
Ludus,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.