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 New Zealand and from London.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 guitar 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 Zeros to the funk 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Bobby Womack,
June Days,
A Certain Ratio,
Motorama,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soft Cell,
Bad Manners,
The Grass Roots,
Nik Kershaw,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick Morgan,
Bronski Beat,
Absolute Body Control,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bobby Sherman,
Au Pairs,
Eddi Front,
Matthew Bourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crispy Ambulance,
Black Sheep,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Spandau Ballet,
The Cure,
Cal Tjader,
kango's stein massive,
Laurel Aitken,
Echospace,
Japan,
Wasted Youth,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scientists,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wire,
Janne Schatter,
The Searchers,
Barry Ungar,
Donny Hathaway,
The Young Rascals,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aloha Tigers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Sex Pistols,
Crooked Eye,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fat Boys,
Lalann,
Jandek,
DJ Style,
Easy Going,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.