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 Albania and from Philadelphia.
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 London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Animal Collective to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mummies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
X-102,
Unrelated Segments,
Drexciya,
Ohio Players,
The Grass Roots,
The Fuzztones,
Sonic Youth,
Avey Tare,
Television,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cameo,
Boz Scaggs,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Womack,
Lou Reed,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lakeside,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fall,
Cluster,
Bad Manners,
The Velvet Underground,
Das Ding,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Age Steppers,
Agitation Free,
Blancmange,
Deepchord,
Pantytec,
Fela Kuti,
cv313,
Susan Cadogan,
The Leaves,
Jawbox,
Eric Copeland,
Fat Boys,
a-ha,
The Alarm Clocks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Panda Bear,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Smog,
Hoover,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Erasure,
The Standells,
Nirvana,
Tim Buckley,
Camberwell Now,
Idris Muhammad,
48th St. Collective,
The Cure,
Joe Smooth,
Thompson Twins,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
The Shadows of Knight,
Yusef Lateef,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.