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 Nauru and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jeru the Damaja to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Roger Hodgson. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Cal Tjader,
Eric Dolphy,
Subhumans,
Flipper,
Anakelly,
Alton Ellis,
X-101,
Sugar Minott,
Bob Dylan,
The Stooges,
CMW,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The United States of America,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Divine Comedy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soft Machine,
Al Stewart,
Tom Boy,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Enemy,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Order,
Magma,
Stereo Dub,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scan 7,
The Remains,
Ken Boothe,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pylon,
The Fire Engines,
Youth Brigade,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bill Near,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young,
James White and The Blacks,
Marvin Gaye,
The Offenders,
The Toasters,
Royal Trux,
Oblivians,
Suburban Knight,
The Beau Brummels,
Agent Orange,
Sister Nancy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Flag,
Flamin' Groovies,
Tears for Fears,
Japan,
The Real Kids,
The Misunderstood,
The Zeros,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.