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 Turkey and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ 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 Grandmaster Flash to the electroclash 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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tom Boy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive 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?
Von Mondo,
Scan 7,
the Normal,
The Last Poets,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Monks,
Unrelated Segments,
Soul Sonic Force,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Gregory Isaacs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nico,
T. Rex,
Qualms,
Shoche,
Thee Headcoats,
Pussy Galore,
Black Pus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Minor Threat,
Black Sheep,
Grey Daturas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ten City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Byrd,
Judy Mowatt,
Mandrill,
Sparks,
Quantec,
Altered Images,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
Gabor Szabo,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Negative Approach,
Patti Smith,
The Sound,
One Last Wish,
Flamin' Groovies,
DJ Sneak,
The Doors,
The Alarm Clocks,
Angry Samoans,
New Age Steppers,
Fad Gadget,
Lakeside,
Index,
Sixth Finger,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Associates,
Surgeon,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.