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 Laos and from Lyon.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Eden Ahbez to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
The Count Five,
B.T. Express,
Fear,
Sound Behaviour,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Residents,
Kerri Chandler,
X-102,
Jacob Miller,
Erykah Badu,
Sandy B,
Grauzone,
Wire,
Yusef Lateef,
Roy Ayers,
Cluster,
Harry Pussy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gap Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Livin' Joy,
Unrelated Segments,
Underground Resistance,
Section 25,
Pierre Henry,
Gastr Del Sol,
Barbara Tucker,
Arthur Verocai,
Eli Mardock,
Neu!,
The Doors,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wolf Eyes,
The Vogues,
The Cramps,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Traffic Nightmare,
Television,
the Soft Cell,
The Smiths,
The Cosmic Jokers,
T.S.O.L.,
Faust,
Harpers Bizarre,
Susan Cadogan,
Make Up,
Chrome,
H. Thieme,
The Blackbyrds,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Absolute Body Control,
Qualms,
Parry Music,
The Move,
10cc,
Lungfish,
Joe Smooth,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Sonics,
Gang of Four,
Radiohead,
Khruangbin,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.