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 Fiji and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Judy Mowatt to the punk 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Red Krayola record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gabor Szabo,
Brand Nubian,
Con Funk Shun,
Tomorrow,
Faraquet,
Unwound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Derrick Morgan,
Bootsy Collins,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cheater Slicks,
Connie Case,
Marmalade,
Japan,
Flipper,
Derrick May,
Ohio Players,
Stetsasonic,
Roger Hodgson,
Ten City,
Girls At Our Best!,
Loose Ends,
The Kinks,
Robert Hood,
FM Einheit,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Soul II Soul,
Khruangbin,
Agitation Free,
Chris Corsano,
Roxette,
Warren Ellis,
Essential Logic,
Jimmy McGriff,
Shuggie Otis,
Camouflage,
Parry Music,
Joyce Sims,
Kevin Saunderson,
Quantec,
The Human League,
Gang Green,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Byron Stingily,
The Saints,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fear,
Tim Buckley,
EPMD,
Pierre Henry,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mission of Burma,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visage,
Electric Prunes,
Jawbox,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.