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 Serbia and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Kevin Saunderson,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Shoche,
Sparks,
The Move,
The Doors,
June Days,
Fela Kuti,
Country Teasers,
Fat Boys,
CMW,
Dennis Brown,
Anthony Braxton,
X-Ray Spex,
Stetsasonic,
Soul II Soul,
The Zeros,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Saints,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Todd Rundgren,
Eddi Front,
Black Pus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Barracudas,
Interpol,
Motorama,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ohio Players,
Jacob Miller,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Neon Judgement,
Eden Ahbez,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cybotron,
Youth Brigade,
The Walker Brothers,
Fear,
Dark Day,
Television Personalities,
Cluster,
Barbara Tucker,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Negative Approach,
Funky Four + One,
Juan Atkins,
Idris Muhammad,
Joey Negro,
Unrelated Segments,
Amon Düül,
Newcleus,
The Shadows of Knight,
Wolf Eyes,
Brothers Johnson,
Susan Cadogan,
Whodini,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.