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 Japan and from Columbus.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
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 oboe 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Sun City Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
The Sonics,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Visage,
The Dirtbombs,
Faust,
Big Daddy Kane,
Piero Umiliani,
Gong,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Trojans,
Joey Negro,
Ronan,
MC5,
Section 25,
H. Thieme,
Khruangbin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Hoover,
Jeff Mills,
Vainqueur,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eli Mardock,
Neu!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donny Hathaway,
Ituana,
Simply Red,
Brand Nubian,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Zeros,
X-101,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bauhaus,
X-Ray Spex,
The Associates,
Tears for Fears,
Scott Walker,
Pere Ubu,
Index,
The Monks,
Accadde A,
Idris Muhammad,
Los Fastidios,
The Blues Magoos,
Unrelated Segments,
Eve St. Jones,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mantronix,
Spoonie Gee,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Subhumans,
Ultra Naté,
Qualms,
Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case, Connie Case.
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.