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 Yemen and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Gichy Dan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Roger Hodgson,
Urselle,
Khruangbin,
The Star Department,
Pantytec,
Fat Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Iggy Pop,
Peter & Gordon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Archie Shepp,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Albert Ayler,
Main Source,
Bad Manners,
Grandmaster Flash,
China Crisis,
Niagra,
Ohio Players,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mr. Review,
The Wake,
These Immortal Souls,
Electric Prunes,
Sarah Menescal,
The Shadows of Knight,
Parry Music,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Slits,
Anthony Braxton,
Pussy Galore,
Hoover,
Erykah Badu,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fugazi,
Youth Brigade,
Deakin,
Dawn Penn,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Slits,
The Alarm Clocks,
Michelle Simonal,
Tubeway Army,
Soulsonic Force,
Shoche,
Radiohead,
Mars,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Zeros,
Gang of Four,
Groovy Waters,
Bill Near,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Remains,
Blossom Toes,
La Düsseldorf,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.