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 Cuba and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jandek to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Terrestrial Tones. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Traffic Nightmare,
Half Japanese,
Sarah Menescal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric B and Rakim,
Mary Jane Girls,
Roxy Music,
Deakin,
Flash Fearless,
AZ,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Faraquet,
Peter and Kerry,
Sam Rivers,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chrome,
Ultravox,
Matthew Bourne,
Don Cherry,
Todd Terry,
Minor Threat,
The J.B.'s,
Siglo XX,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Unwound,
The Evens,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Buckinghams,
Lakeside,
Iggy Pop,
Saccharine Trust,
Rod Modell,
Cecil Taylor,
Second Layer,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Red Krayola,
Stetsasonic,
Massinfluence,
The Young Rascals,
Scion,
Henry Cow,
Arab on Radar,
The Index,
Marvin Gaye,
Neu!,
Fluxion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Wally Richardson,
10cc,
China Crisis,
Susan Cadogan,
PIL,
Junior Murvin,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
New Order,
ABC,
The Fall,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Byron Stingily,
Suicide,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.