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 Bangladesh and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 marimba 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 Funkadelic to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Morten Harket,
Scion,
X-101,
Fela Kuti,
Jeff Mills,
New Order,
Cybotron,
Ituana,
The Angels of Light,
Severed Heads,
The Divine Comedy,
Bobby Sherman,
Moebius,
D'Angelo,
Sly & The Family Stone,
R.M.O.,
Davy DMX,
Smog,
Soft Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Bananas,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Au Pairs,
the Sonics,
Can,
EPMD,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lower 48,
Cal Tjader,
Siglo XX,
Icehouse,
Nils Olav,
Hot Snakes,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jawbox,
David Axelrod,
David Bowie,
Glenn Branca,
Marc Almond,
Yellowson,
The Standells,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Flag,
Alphaville,
Shoche,
ABBA,
Royal Trux,
Danielle Patucci,
MC5,
Eli Mardock,
Lungfish,
The Velvet Underground,
The Walker Brothers,
The Selecter,
Pylon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alton Ellis,
JFA,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.