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 Iraq and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the crunk 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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Harmonia,
cv313,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeff Mills,
Tommy Roe,
Grauzone,
Agitation Free,
Lower 48,
Stetsasonic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eric Dolphy,
Ice-T,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Al Stewart,
The Invisible,
The Zeros,
Maleditus Sound,
Jesper Dahlback,
The American Breed,
Swell Maps,
Dawn Penn,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Saints,
Glenn Branca,
Ronnie Foster,
the Soft Cell,
Jeff Lynne,
Lyres,
This Heat,
Sparks,
Lucky Dragons,
Echospace,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bobby Hutcherson,
La Düsseldorf,
Danielle Patucci,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marmalade,
Index,
Main Source,
Delta 5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Move,
Fatback Band,
Brass Construction,
Metal Thangz,
Rotary Connection,
Quando Quango,
Gregory Isaacs,
Subhumans,
Parry Music,
Drexciya,
The Doors,
Lightning Bolt,
Kool Moe Dee,
EPMD,
Michelle Simonal,
Jandek,
Bush Tetras,
Brand Nubian,
Pierre Henry,
Marc Almond,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.