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 Congo and from Mumbai.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sparks to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans 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?
The Seeds,
Pussy Galore,
Magma,
Soft Machine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Maurizio,
Scion,
Bronski Beat,
Patti Smith,
Charles Mingus,
Technova,
the Swans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Minutemen,
Josef K,
The Names,
Harry Pussy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fat Boys,
The Birthday Party,
the Normal,
Audionom,
Fela Kuti,
Deepchord,
Wally Richardson,
Harmonia,
Yusef Lateef,
Motorama,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wings,
Joy Division,
Aaron Thompson,
Kaleidoscope,
The Black Dice,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
The Buckinghams,
Pantaleimon,
The Gun Club,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Litter,
Godley & Creme,
Ten City,
Malaria!,
The Modern Lovers,
Marvin Gaye,
The Music Machine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Mummies,
Black Pus,
Essential Logic,
Bush Tetras,
Chris & Cosey,
Gregory Isaacs,
Half Japanese,
Von Mondo,
Dennis Brown,
Magazine,
Derrick May,
Ice-T,
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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.