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 the UAE 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Young Marble Giants to the jazz 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Starr 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Stiv Bators,
Neil Young,
Whodini,
Erykah Badu,
Ralphi Rosario,
Soft Machine,
Fat Boys,
Television Personalities,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Johnny Clarke,
Hasil Adkins,
Thee Headcoats,
Sam Rivers,
Simply Red,
Lyres,
Aloha Tigers,
Section 25,
Pantaleimon,
Quantec,
The Slits,
DNA,
Minor Threat,
The Skatalites,
The Victims,
Byron Stingily,
Popol Vuh,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kool Moe Dee,
Tres Demented,
June Days,
The Fugs,
Negative Approach,
Michelle Simonal,
Blancmange,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soul Sonic Force,
Crooked Eye,
The Kinks,
The Searchers,
World's Most,
Albert Ayler,
Frankie Knuckles,
David Bowie,
Davy DMX,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Godley & Creme,
Second Layer,
Lalo Schifrin,
David McCallum,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Deepchord,
David Axelrod,
Alton Ellis,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Knickerbockers,
Barry Ungar,
Babytalk,
Robert Wyatt,
Wings,
The Star Department,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.