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 Uganda and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 Bobby Byrd to the electroclash 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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rufus Thomas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Marmalade,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
Throbbing Gristle,
Chris Corsano,
Parry Music,
Deadbeat,
Bronski Beat,
Cal Tjader,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bauhaus,
Dual Sessions,
Panda Bear,
Stereo Dub,
Suicide,
Nation of Ulysses,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
China Crisis,
The Fall,
Patti Smith,
This Heat,
The Standells,
The Martian,
Roy Ayers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Human League,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gong,
Swans,
Connie Case,
Nirvana,
Suburban Knight,
Japan,
the Swans,
The Doobie Brothers,
Angry Samoans,
Minny Pops,
The Cosmic Jokers,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed,
Negative Approach,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Barracudas,
Agitation Free,
Black Pus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joyce Sims,
Make Up,
Quando Quango,
Ronnie Foster,
Judy Mowatt,
Essential Logic,
Sandy B,
Con Funk Shun,
Lalann,
Letta Mbulu,
Henry Cow,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.