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 Serbia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Joe Smooth to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 8 Eyed Spy. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Offenders,
This Heat,
Sandy B,
Dark Day,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aural Exciters,
The Monks,
The Birthday Party,
The Gun Club,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Yaz,
Brand Nubian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alice Coltrane,
Deakin,
Ice-T,
AZ,
Brick,
The Five Americans,
The Monochrome Set,
Marine Girls,
The Cowsills,
Agitation Free,
Siglo XX,
Sällskapet,
Tom Boy,
the Germs,
Sam Rivers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nils Olav,
Patti Smith,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Eric Dolphy,
Ronnie Foster,
Sonic Youth,
The Wake,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Nico,
Joe Smooth,
Barbara Tucker,
The Blackbyrds,
Soulsonic Force,
Junior Murvin,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantytec,
Jeff Mills,
The Gladiators,
Sarah Menescal,
Pantaleimon,
The Skatalites,
Al Stewart,
The Fugs,
Jandek,
The Index,
The Gories,
Fat Boys,
T.S.O.L.,
Kayak,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.