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 San Marino and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Malaria! to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Move record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Frankie Knuckles,
Man Parrish,
Eric Dolphy,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Fugs,
James White and The Blacks,
Franke,
Funky Four + One,
Mo-Dettes,
The Velvet Underground,
Patti Smith,
Dennis Brown,
Fear,
The Searchers,
Prince Buster,
The Skatalites,
Shoche,
Kool Moe Dee,
Main Source,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fall,
Harmonia,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scratch Acid,
Black Moon,
the Sonics,
The Beau Brummels,
Mandrill,
Stetsasonic,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Excepter,
Cecil Taylor,
Kayak,
Brick,
Junior Murvin,
Girls At Our Best!,
Dual Sessions,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amazonics,
Drexciya,
The Vogues,
Qualms,
Flipper,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Pop Group,
Monks,
EPMD,
The Remains,
Soul Sonic Force,
Robert Wyatt,
Half Japanese,
Nas,
Toni Rubio,
Symarip,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Chris Corsano,
Mars,
The Alarm Clocks,
Matthew Bourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.