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 Azerbaijan and from Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joensuu 1685 to the grunge 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 The Count Five. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Scientists,
Youth Brigade,
Schoolly D,
Ohio Players,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
KRS-One,
Eden Ahbez,
Cybotron,
Kenny Larkin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scan 7,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Amon Düül,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Skatalites,
Nas,
The Pop Group,
Brothers Johnson,
Soul II Soul,
Sight & Sound,
Crash Course in Science,
Darondo,
June of 44,
The Fuzztones,
The Neon Judgement,
The Divine Comedy,
Simply Red,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yazoo,
Quando Quango,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Livin' Joy,
Skriet,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Stereo Dub,
Dawn Penn,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Make Up,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Agitation Free,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q and Not U,
Can,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fall,
Deakin,
The Toasters,
Radio Birdman,
Sun Ra,
Sun City Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Lower 48,
Ornette Coleman,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.