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 Bulgaria and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the rhodes 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 David Axelrod to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Metal Thangz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Fela Kuti,
Television Personalities,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bauhaus,
Joyce Sims,
The Toasters,
The Dirtbombs,
Joe Smooth,
Danielle Patucci,
Big Daddy Kane,
Soul II Soul,
Lakeside,
The Sonics,
Porter Ricks,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Human League,
The Dave Clark Five,
Janne Schatter,
Organ,
The Zeros,
Anakelly,
James White and The Blacks,
The Monochrome Set,
The Busters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eric Dolphy,
Kaleidoscope,
X-Ray Spex,
The Slackers,
Amazonics,
Basic Channel,
Animal Collective,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jeff Mills,
Eddi Front,
Boz Scaggs,
The Vogues,
Peter and Kerry,
The Blackbyrds,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marine Girls,
OOIOO,
Sparks,
Chris Corsano,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
a-ha,
Funkadelic,
Andrew Hill,
X-102,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Glenn Branca,
Reagan Youth,
Masters at Work,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David Axelrod,
The Invisible,
Stereo Dub,
Ossler,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.