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 Yemen and from Cairo.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Morten Harket to the rap 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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
Gastr Del Sol,
Franke,
Eden Ahbez,
Technova,
Soul II Soul,
FM Einheit,
Wolf Eyes,
Sällskapet,
Main Source,
Tears for Fears,
Colin Newman,
Wasted Youth,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gregory Isaacs,
Althea and Donna,
KRS-One,
Drive Like Jehu,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Von Mondo,
Bronski Beat,
Patti Smith,
Con Funk Shun,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slits,
Lindisfarne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Glenn Branca,
Reuben Wilson,
La Düsseldorf,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pole,
The Litter,
Scrapy,
Harpers Bizarre,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Das Ding,
Shoche,
Suicide,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Black Dice,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Doobie Brothers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Donny Hathaway,
The Names,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
Girls At Our Best!,
Intrusion,
The Star Department,
Arab on Radar,
The Last Poets,
The Wake,
The Mojo Men,
the Slits,
Pantaleimon,
D'Angelo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
X-102,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.