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 Germany 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Michael McDonald 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 10cc to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerri Chandler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Seeds,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Durutti Column,
Wally Richardson,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Juan Atkins,
Von Mondo,
Prince Buster,
Bad Manners,
Colin Newman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yaz,
Marshall Jefferson,
Can,
Quando Quango,
Mars,
The Electric Prunes,
Sam Rivers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sexual Harrassment,
James White and The Blacks,
Kas Product,
Zero Boys,
Depeche Mode,
Erykah Badu,
Camberwell Now,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grey Daturas,
The Detroit Cobras,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Black Pus,
The Divine Comedy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minor Threat,
Joensuu 1685,
Deadbeat,
MC5,
Echospace,
Johnny Clarke,
The Neon Judgement,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eli Mardock,
Yellowson,
Franke,
The Skatalites,
This Heat,
Carl Craig,
Ultravox,
Index,
Dual Sessions,
Deakin,
Kaleidoscope,
Rites of Spring,
Barry Ungar,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Happenings,
Loose Ends,
Isaac Hayes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.