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 North and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band to the electroclash 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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Buckinghams record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Fortunes,
Mo-Dettes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Derrick Morgan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
Ronan,
Sarah Menescal,
Howard Jones,
Yazoo,
The Skatalites,
Radio Birdman,
Talk Talk,
Fugazi,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABBA,
The American Breed,
Marshall Jefferson,
Isaac Hayes,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter & Gordon,
Reagan Youth,
Gang Starr,
X-Ray Spex,
Lakeside,
The Red Krayola,
Colin Newman,
Delta 5,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Make Up,
Desert Stars,
Juan Atkins,
The Durutti Column,
Brick,
Alice Coltrane,
Sam Rivers,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smoke,
Wire,
JFA,
The Martian,
Black Flag,
June of 44,
The Fugs,
Animal Collective,
The New Christs,
Skaos,
Cecil Taylor,
Motorama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eddi Front,
The Cramps,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jacob Miller,
Al Stewart,
Flash Fearless,
Oblivians,
The Neon Judgement,
Grey Daturas,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.