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 Cape Verde and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin 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 Black Bananas to the grunge 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 X-102. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
ABBA,
Technova,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sixth Finger,
The Grass Roots,
The Moleskins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Aswad,
The Litter,
David Axelrod,
Aaron Thompson,
The Electric Prunes,
Deadbeat,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
Swans,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Prince Buster,
Soul II Soul,
Kool Moe Dee,
Maleditus Sound,
Leonard Cohen,
the Bar-Kays,
cv313,
John Lydon,
Q and Not U,
Toni Rubio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeff Mills,
Alton Ellis,
Slick Rick,
James White and The Blacks,
Warren Ellis,
the Human League,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dead C,
Grandmaster Flash,
Derrick May,
Crooked Eye,
Zapp,
Tom Boy,
Lou Reed,
Suburban Knight,
The Gories,
Schoolly D,
Quando Quango,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Popol Vuh,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rekid,
Sun Ra,
New Order,
Model 500,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Hill,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.