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 Lithuania 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ludus 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Bill Near,
Jandek,
Schoolly D,
Eddi Front,
Quadrant,
The Remains,
A Certain Ratio,
Sight & Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronan,
Public Enemy,
Ituana,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Livin' Joy,
Infiniti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
MC5,
The J.B.'s,
Tommy Roe,
Don Cherry,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Supertramp,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Con Funk Shun,
The Birthday Party,
Nik Kershaw,
The Smiths,
Vainqueur,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dual Sessions,
Bill Wells,
The Velvet Underground,
The Walker Brothers,
Rufus Thomas,
Frankie Knuckles,
Y Pants,
Rod Modell,
B.T. Express,
The Last Poets,
Scott Walker,
X-102,
Country Teasers,
Brick,
Pussy Galore,
Funkadelic,
ABC,
a-ha,
Soul Sonic Force,
F. McDonald,
10cc,
Ornette Coleman,
Bobby Byrd,
Sister Nancy,
LL Cool J,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.