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 Lithuania and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 synthesizer 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 Black Pus to the funk 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scientists,
The Victims,
Carl Craig,
Josef K,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
Desert Stars,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Terry,
Black Sheep,
The Skatalites,
Goldenarms,
Schoolly D,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter and Kerry,
Mantronix,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Maurizio,
Suburban Knight,
Skriet,
Prince Buster,
Agent Orange,
Crispian St. Peters,
Magma,
The Leaves,
K-Klass,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Leonard Cohen,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Motions,
Ludus,
New Order,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Electric Prunes,
Faust,
Hashim,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Piero Umiliani,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Slits,
The Knickerbockers,
PIL,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
E-Dancer,
Cal Tjader,
Sexual Harrassment,
Cheater Slicks,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fall,
Jandek,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.