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 Costa Rica and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pulsallama to the jazz 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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Icehouse,
Whodini,
Althea and Donna,
Brand Nubian,
Charles Mingus,
The Velvet Underground,
Rapeman,
Livin' Joy,
Nation of Ulysses,
Funkadelic,
Accadde A,
The Residents,
Babytalk,
Massinfluence,
Eric Dolphy,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Iggy Pop,
David Axelrod,
PIL,
The Stooges,
Susan Cadogan,
The Sound,
Scan 7,
Matthew Bourne,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Busters,
Guru Guru,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sound Behaviour,
Kaleidoscope,
Nas,
Japan,
Scott Walker,
Dual Sessions,
The Tremeloes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Popol Vuh,
Neil Young,
Deepchord,
Gregory Isaacs,
ABC,
The Real Kids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Cramps,
Rakim,
The Pop Group,
Pylon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Agent Orange,
Kas Product,
Skaos,
Oblivians,
Au Pairs,
Swans,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fela Kuti,
Fugazi,
Warren Ellis,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.