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 Malaysia and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Can to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Names. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Loose Ends,
James White and The Blacks,
Swans,
The Red Krayola,
Malaria!,
Thompson Twins,
Sällskapet,
Public Image Ltd.,
U.S. Maple,
Alice Coltrane,
The Monochrome Set,
Glambeats Corp.,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jawbox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Simply Red,
Ultravox,
Althea and Donna,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Zeros,
The Offenders,
Frankie Knuckles,
Andrew Hill,
Radiohead,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Metal Thangz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Procol Harum,
Model 500,
Barry Ungar,
Whodini,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Blackbyrds,
Davy DMX,
Rapeman,
Silicon Teens,
Lower 48,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Leonard Cohen,
Icehouse,
X-Ray Spex,
the Human League,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Magazine,
Interpol,
Todd Rundgren,
Vainqueur,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
Electric Prunes,
Funkadelic,
Visage,
MC5,
Soulsonic Force,
AZ,
DJ Sneak,
Black Flag,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.