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 Gabon and from Madrid.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bobby Womack to the rap 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Fortunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Terry Callier,
Animal Collective,
Das Ding,
Glambeats Corp.,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
Silicon Teens,
Don Cherry,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
AZ,
Eden Ahbez,
Josef K,
Black Flag,
Chrome,
The Standells,
The Velvet Underground,
Camberwell Now,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DNA,
A Certain Ratio,
The Buckinghams,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
D'Angelo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rapeman,
Monolake,
Jandek,
Inner City,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Lydon,
Brick,
China Crisis,
Carl Craig,
Mantronix,
The Happenings,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skaos,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Hoover,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Alice Coltrane,
The Cramps,
Pole,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ossler,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Mandrill,
Pierre Henry,
Drexciya,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Letta Mbulu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Soft Cell,
The Moleskins,
Intrusion,
Jacob Miller,
Von Mondo,
Infiniti,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.