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 Cameroon and from Tokyo.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Essential Logic to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 the Slits. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Enemy,
Dual Sessions,
Morten Harket,
Peter and Kerry,
Matthew Halsall,
Index,
The Invisible,
Janne Schatter,
Easy Going,
The Techniques,
The Saints,
Bad Manners,
Altered Images,
Thompson Twins,
Althea and Donna,
Tommy Roe,
Maleditus Sound,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
Khruangbin,
MC5,
Sandy B,
Flash Fearless,
Ornette Coleman,
Rakim,
Eddi Front,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Liliput,
The Red Krayola,
Joy Division,
Pierre Henry,
Sun Ra,
Junior Murvin,
U.S. Maple,
Al Stewart,
The Sound,
Toni Rubio,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Moebius,
Trumans Water,
Jeff Lynne,
A Certain Ratio,
Moss Icon,
Funky Four + One,
Gong,
Accadde A,
Avey Tare,
The J.B.'s,
Chris & Cosey,
Magma,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swell Maps,
Japan,
Franke,
MDC,
Nico,
Au Pairs,
The Smoke,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Moon,
Royal Trux,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.