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 Romania and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 linndrum 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 Sister Nancy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fat Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Cowsills,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visage,
Frankie Knuckles,
Oblivians,
The Stooges,
Quando Quango,
Yaz,
Nirvana,
Can,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sugar Minott,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Minny Pops,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Fortunes,
Echospace,
Nico,
Bill Near,
Symarip,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
Alphaville,
Glenn Branca,
Nick Fraelich,
Sällskapet,
Lyres,
Grauzone,
Camberwell Now,
Schoolly D,
Grey Daturas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Harmonia,
Pantytec,
Curtis Mayfield,
Masters at Work,
Livin' Joy,
Essential Logic,
Massinfluence,
David Bowie,
Eddi Front,
Second Layer,
Joy Division,
Dennis Brown,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Grass Roots,
Amon Düül,
Iggy Pop,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Arab on Radar,
Glambeats Corp.,
Circle Jerks,
Khruangbin,
Tres Demented,
the Normal,
AZ,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.