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 Oman and from Mexico City.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Davy DMX to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Peanut Butter Conspiracy. All the underground hits.
All Siouxsie and the Banshees tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Radiopuhelimet,
Davy DMX,
the Swans,
Alphaville,
Marshall Jefferson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cameo,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sight & Sound,
The Invisible,
Underground Resistance,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Cramps,
the Association,
Can,
Wolf Eyes,
Fela Kuti,
Roger Hodgson,
Monks,
the Normal,
Carl Craig,
Ornette Coleman,
Bronski Beat,
Marvin Gaye,
Traffic Nightmare,
Masters at Work,
Amazonics,
Monolake,
Babytalk,
Ludus,
The Blackbyrds,
David Axelrod,
U.S. Maple,
Von Mondo,
Roxy Music,
Donald Byrd,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gabor Szabo,
Bobby Sherman,
Reuben Wilson,
Loose Ends,
L. Decosne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gong,
Black Sheep,
Juan Atkins,
Yusef Lateef,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Cure,
The Remains,
Robert Wyatt,
The Golliwogs,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Con Funk Shun,
Albert Ayler,
The Knickerbockers,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.