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 Finland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 organ 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 Adolescents to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
The Divine Comedy,
The Seeds,
Agent Orange,
X-Ray Spex,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Roy Ayers,
The Smoke,
Laurel Aitken,
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Blues Magoos,
Andrew Hill,
Ornette Coleman,
Joey Negro,
DJ Style,
Fugazi,
The Kinks,
Icehouse,
Brothers Johnson,
Metal Thangz,
Fad Gadget,
Hasil Adkins,
Vainqueur,
Deadbeat,
The Misunderstood,
Fear,
Althea and Donna,
Josef K,
The Monochrome Set,
Aural Exciters,
Suburban Knight,
Qualms,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rufus Thomas,
Sexual Harrassment,
Warren Ellis,
The Litter,
Tears for Fears,
Eddi Front,
Adolescents,
Schoolly D,
JFA,
Make Up,
The Walker Brothers,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Moody Blues,
Roxy Music,
Gregory Isaacs,
Godley & Creme,
Joe Finger,
Echospace,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
John Holt,
The Flesh Eaters,
Gastr Del Sol,
LL Cool J,
Dark Day,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mark Hollis,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.