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 Monaco and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Robert Palmer 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 Joy Division to the dance 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Accadde A,
Tom Boy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter,
Essential Logic,
Khruangbin,
Cecil Taylor,
Altered Images,
Trumans Water,
Ten City,
The Selecter,
Wasted Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Laurel Aitken,
Sonny Sharrock,
Liliput,
Negative Approach,
Japan,
Funkadelic,
Silicon Teens,
The Move,
Byron Stingily,
Siglo XX,
Crispian St. Peters,
Supertramp,
Josef K,
The Fortunes,
Pet Shop Boys,
DJ Sneak,
Fad Gadget,
Banda Bassotti,
Pulsallama,
Drexciya,
Bizarre Inc.,
Ken Boothe,
Bauhaus,
Lightning Bolt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Animal Collective,
Tim Buckley,
the Normal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Stooges,
Qualms,
Al Stewart,
The Music Machine,
Steve Hackett,
Ponytail,
Robert Görl,
Camouflage,
Basic Channel,
The Offenders,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Das Ding,
OOIOO,
Monks,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.