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 Switzerland and from Johannesburg.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eli Mardock to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Circle Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
The Young Rascals,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Grass Roots,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
The Count Five,
Crime,
ABBA,
Junior Murvin,
Tim Buckley,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Public Image Ltd.,
Technova,
In Retrospect,
Yazoo,
Rod Modell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sun Ra,
Tomorrow,
Soft Machine,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Colin Newman,
Main Source,
Mr. Review,
Bobby Byrd,
Khruangbin,
China Crisis,
Altered Images,
Wings,
Althea and Donna,
Stereo Dub,
10cc,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Letta Mbulu,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Saints,
Sam Rivers,
Gang of Four,
Sonny Sharrock,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eden Ahbez,
Graham Central Station,
Babytalk,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Skatalites,
48th St. Collective,
the Soft Cell,
The Barracudas,
Iggy Pop,
The Black Dice,
Jimmy McGriff,
These Immortal Souls,
the Slits,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kaleidoscope,
Von Mondo,
Ken Boothe,
Aswad,
Ten City,
Glenn Branca,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.