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 Lesotho and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Quantec to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeru the Damaja record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
This Heat,
the Swans,
Q65,
Donald Byrd,
The Motions,
Carl Craig,
Sparks,
OOIOO,
Grey Daturas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Idris Muhammad,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ralphi Rosario,
JFA,
The Fugs,
KRS-One,
Massinfluence,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sandy B,
The Index,
Iggy Pop,
a-ha,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultra Naté,
Niagra,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Byrd,
Circle Jerks,
Cecil Taylor,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Au Pairs,
Scan 7,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ten City,
The Blackbyrds,
The Last Poets,
Rosa Yemen,
Alton Ellis,
Radio Birdman,
The J.B.'s,
Junior Murvin,
Fatback Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Faust,
Sound Behaviour,
The Kinks,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Angry Samoans,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
Sight & Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Thee Headcoats,
Leonard Cohen,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Görl,
New Age Steppers,
Simply Red,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.