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 Ivory Coast and from London.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Shadows of Knight to the rock 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 Todd Terry. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Porter Ricks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Wolf Eyes,
Suicide,
The Smoke,
Livin' Joy,
Eric Dolphy,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DJ Style,
Gastr Del Sol,
Darondo,
Severed Heads,
Scan 7,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alton Ellis,
Bang On A Can,
The Star Department,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Junior Murvin,
Panda Bear,
Letta Mbulu,
The Velvet Underground,
Jimmy McGriff,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nas,
Arthur Verocai,
Hardrive,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fire Engines,
Colin Newman,
UT,
Groovy Waters,
Quantec,
U.S. Maple,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Bad Manners,
Mandrill,
The Slits,
Spoonie Gee,
Lalann,
The Searchers,
Little Man,
Absolute Body Control,
The Litter,
Anakelly,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ice-T,
Section 25,
Faust,
T.S.O.L.,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Divine Comedy,
Nirvana,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Byron Stingily,
Delta 5,
Ossler,
Isaac Hayes,
Reagan Youth,
Interpol,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.