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 Russia and from Mexico City.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Flag to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Moleskins,
EPMD,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bill Near,
Banda Bassotti,
Agent Orange,
Livin' Joy,
Malaria!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terry Callier,
Wally Richardson,
FM Einheit,
Sparks,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
Motorama,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gabor Szabo,
Outsiders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DJ Sneak,
Absolute Body Control,
Lungfish,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick May,
Deakin,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Image Ltd.,
Supertramp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Panda Bear,
Cheater Slicks,
Kayak,
The Seeds,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mary Jane Girls,
Slick Rick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ronnie Foster,
The Pretty Things,
Althea and Donna,
Bauhaus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Martian,
Gong,
David Bowie,
Deadbeat,
Blancmange,
Sun City Girls,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dead C,
Gang Gang Dance,
Suburban Knight,
Theoretical Girls,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Tomorrow,
Scratch Acid,
Basic Channel,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.