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 Sweden and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb 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 Peter & Gordon to the dance 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Shuggie Otis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
U.S. Maple,
Joey Negro,
Stiv Bators,
H. Thieme,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Pop Group,
Soulsonic Force,
Sugar Minott,
Siglo XX,
Yaz,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter & Gordon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aural Exciters,
Bill Wells,
The Litter,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Joyce Sims,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Victims,
Rakim,
Bootsy Collins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Harmonia,
Marmalade,
Stockholm Monsters,
Hoover,
The Fuzztones,
T. Rex,
The Busters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ronnie Foster,
Fad Gadget,
Lungfish,
Cymande,
UT,
Sarah Menescal,
Los Fastidios,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Black Bananas,
Roger Hodgson,
Moby Grape,
Fluxion,
Bush Tetras,
The New Christs,
Lyres,
Robert Wyatt,
the Soft Cell,
Angry Samoans,
Tropical Tobacco,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Wire,
Guru Guru,
MC5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Can,
E-Dancer,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.