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 Palau 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Yusef Lateef to the techno 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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unwound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 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 Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
LL Cool J,
AZ,
The Doobie Brothers,
Carl Craig,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Enemy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Todd Terry,
The Residents,
Porter Ricks,
Von Mondo,
Piero Umiliani,
The Motions,
John Foxx,
Kurtis Blow,
Marmalade,
Ohio Players,
Sarah Menescal,
Anthony Braxton,
Circle Jerks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hot Snakes,
Basic Channel,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deepchord,
the Association,
Howard Jones,
Infiniti,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Jandek,
Y Pants,
Urselle,
Suburban Knight,
Alton Ellis,
Wings,
David Bowie,
Dark Day,
Panda Bear,
Donny Hathaway,
Adolescents,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Count Five,
Livin' Joy,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Swell Maps,
Buzzcocks,
The Grass Roots,
Robert Görl,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Curtis Mayfield,
James White and The Blacks,
Qualms,
X-Ray Spex,
One Last Wish,
Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Cecil Taylor.
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.