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 Somalia and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 808 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 Panda Bear to the grunge 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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
Glenn Branca,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Mars,
ABC,
The Monochrome Set,
Minny Pops,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skriet,
Reagan Youth,
Oblivians,
Erasure,
The Walker Brothers,
Amon Düül,
The Invisible,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dawn Penn,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Main Source,
Wolf Eyes,
Sugar Minott,
Wings,
Rhythm & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Christie,
Tim Buckley,
Pharoah Sanders,
Infiniti,
Chrome,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fortunes,
Motorama,
Q65,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roger Hodgson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deakin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Scott Walker,
Jacques Brel,
John Lydon,
Ornette Coleman,
John Coltrane,
Alison Limerick,
E-Dancer,
Little Man,
June Days,
One Last Wish,
The Searchers,
Max Romeo,
Hoover,
Half Japanese,
Lakeside,
Maleditus Sound,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rakim,
Warren Ellis,
the Swans,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.