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 Oman and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb 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 Rhythim Is Rhythim to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marc Almond,
Unwound,
Jeff Lynne,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Leaves,
Neil Young,
Brass Construction,
Delon & Dalcan,
Prince Buster,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick Morgan,
The Angels of Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Infiniti,
Quadrant,
Mark Hollis,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
John Coltrane,
Crime,
The Martian,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Starr,
Marine Girls,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fela Kuti,
Aswad,
The Mojo Men,
David Bowie,
Deakin,
Crispy Ambulance,
Michelle Simonal,
The Knickerbockers,
LL Cool J,
Scratch Acid,
Cheater Slicks,
Pylon,
Lightning Bolt,
Alison Limerick,
Sight & Sound,
Peter and Kerry,
Brand Nubian,
Aaron Thompson,
Porter Ricks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
A Certain Ratio,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Wolf Eyes,
The Black Dice,
The Offenders,
Sarah Menescal,
Depeche Mode,
Marshall Jefferson,
Accadde A,
Quantec,
Bush Tetras,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.