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 France and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the rock 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 Funkadelic. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lee Hazlewood,
Steve Hackett,
Maurizio,
The Leaves,
Slick Rick,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lightning Bolt,
Scion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Donald Byrd,
Half Japanese,
Silicon Teens,
Dennis Brown,
U.S. Maple,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kevin Saunderson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Motorama,
The Martian,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cure,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dorothy Ashby,
Carl Craig,
Cluster,
Stiv Bators,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Audionom,
Soft Machine,
a-ha,
Tom Boy,
Wolf Eyes,
Essential Logic,
Fugazi,
Rosa Yemen,
Goldenarms,
James White and The Blacks,
Zero Boys,
Index,
Suburban Knight,
The Busters,
Gabor Szabo,
Scan 7,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Television Personalities,
Soft Cell,
Wally Richardson,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
The Slackers,
Subhumans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Remains,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Das Ding,
Joe Smooth,
The Electric Prunes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Nik Kershaw,
Bang On A Can,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.