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 Chile and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bologna.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Ten City to the techno 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 Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All the Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
Gong,
Marvin Gaye,
Goldenarms,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Panda Bear,
Jesper Dahlback,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Negative Approach,
Sällskapet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Glenn Branca,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sex Pistols,
Jerry's Kids,
Boredoms,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Görl,
Man Parrish,
Brick,
The Modern Lovers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
Derrick May,
The Gap Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Erykah Badu,
Althea and Donna,
Danielle Patucci,
Stiv Bators,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
B.T. Express,
Stetsasonic,
The Victims,
Index,
Bob Dylan,
Moby Grape,
Oblivians,
Crooked Eye,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
A Certain Ratio,
48th St. Collective,
La Düsseldorf,
Eden Ahbez,
Pulsallama,
K-Klass,
R.M.O.,
Altered Images,
Sound Behaviour,
Clear Light,
Lee Hazlewood,
Section 25,
The Last Poets,
Lucky Dragons,
Dennis Brown,
Jandek,
The Martian,
Bobby Byrd,
The Slits,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.