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 Korea South and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Gichy Dan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Cymande tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Basic Channel,
Camouflage,
Wings,
The J.B.'s,
The Sound,
Minor Threat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bobby Sherman,
World's Most,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Bluetip,
Rosa Yemen,
Echospace,
Dark Day,
Flipper,
Camberwell Now,
Tom Boy,
Bauhaus,
Brothers Johnson,
Television,
The Evens,
EPMD,
cv313,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crime,
Severed Heads,
Oblivians,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Wyatt,
The Fire Engines,
Lee Hazlewood,
Erykah Badu,
Deadbeat,
Erasure,
Steve Hackett,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Average White Band,
Henry Cow,
New York Dolls,
Chrome,
The Knickerbockers,
Mad Mike,
The Standells,
Derrick Morgan,
The Modern Lovers,
Symarip,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Quadrant,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Angry Samoans,
Circle Jerks,
Albert Ayler,
Al Stewart,
Bootsy Collins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Theoretical Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.