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 Japan and from Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 AZ to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Schoolly D,
Drexciya,
Sonny Sharrock,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Fall,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Angry Samoans,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Golliwogs,
Peter & Gordon,
the Normal,
Spoonie Gee,
Chrome,
Saccharine Trust,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Music Machine,
John Foxx,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Grass Roots,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unrelated Segments,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gap Band,
L. Decosne,
Mark Hollis,
T.S.O.L.,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun Ra,
The Fortunes,
Nick Fraelich,
Kaleidoscope,
Eddi Front,
Soulsonic Force,
Max Romeo,
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Yusef Lateef,
Gabor Szabo,
The Knickerbockers,
Hardrive,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Moleskins,
The Human League,
Rakim,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
World's Most,
Kenny Larkin,
Iggy Pop,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Flipper,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Monochrome Set,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Prince Buster,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.