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 Kiribati and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gregory Isaacs to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Supertramp,
Ronan,
Make Up,
Donald Byrd,
Groovy Waters,
June of 44,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fugs,
The Young Rascals,
The Searchers,
The Victims,
Bill Near,
CMW,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Moss Icon,
Guru Guru,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sällskapet,
The Five Americans,
Camberwell Now,
MDC,
Pierre Henry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Second Layer,
John Coltrane,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Mojo Men,
Fugazi,
Moby Grape,
Main Source,
Frankie Knuckles,
Intrusion,
This Heat,
JFA,
Flamin' Groovies,
Susan Cadogan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Adolescents,
Isaac Hayes,
Pulsallama,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Metal Thangz,
Deepchord,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Starr,
Franke,
Sixth Finger,
Bad Manners,
The Dave Clark Five,
Accadde A,
The Gap Band,
Brand Nubian,
Rufus Thomas,
Chris & Cosey,
Nas,
Gichy Dan,
The Martian,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.