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 Guinea and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 oboe 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 Sun Ra to the rock 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 Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Quadrant,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Aural Exciters,
Banda Bassotti,
Terrestrial Tones,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donny Hathaway,
Cluster,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Byron Stingily,
Alton Ellis,
Derrick Morgan,
Fat Boys,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lalann,
Toni Rubio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yellowson,
ABC,
New York Dolls,
Ice-T,
Hashim,
Pantytec,
The Star Department,
Audionom,
MDC,
Fear,
The Kinks,
The Dead C,
Black Sheep,
Pantaleimon,
The Music Machine,
the Slits,
The Walker Brothers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
X-102,
Shoche,
Peter and Kerry,
The Slackers,
10cc,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bobby Byrd,
Von Mondo,
Godley & Creme,
8 Eyed Spy,
Simply Red,
Reagan Youth,
Monolake,
Can,
Kerrie Biddell,
Moss Icon,
CMW,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Stooges,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Colin Newman,
Los Fastidios,
Matthew Halsall,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.