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 India and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Robert Palmer 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 Music Machine to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Buzzcocks,
Saccharine Trust,
Flipper,
Fear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Star Department,
the Slits,
Scan 7,
Sun Ra,
Shuggie Otis,
Fatback Band,
Slave,
Babytalk,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Enemy,
In Retrospect,
The Red Krayola,
Chris & Cosey,
Slick Rick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Cecil Taylor,
The Selecter,
Sound Behaviour,
X-Ray Spex,
Crooked Eye,
The Doors,
Peter & Gordon,
Ken Boothe,
Traffic Nightmare,
Main Source,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lindisfarne,
The Black Dice,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Tomorrow,
Robert Wyatt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vladislav Delay,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
Talk Talk,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Gap Band,
The Doobie Brothers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Pantaleimon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Fall,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Camberwell Now,
Sam Rivers,
The Fortunes,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.