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 Togo and from Johannesburg.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Cluster to the punk 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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every K-Klass record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chrome record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moss Icon,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Young Rascals,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
Severed Heads,
Suicide,
The Neon Judgement,
Ludus,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
LL Cool J,
Public Image Ltd.,
Hot Snakes,
Reagan Youth,
Qualms,
Radiohead,
Q65,
Joe Smooth,
The Doobie Brothers,
MDC,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Knickerbockers,
In Retrospect,
Warsaw,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
Pole,
Brand Nubian,
The Names,
Quadrant,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Agitation Free,
Magma,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Michelle Simonal,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Isaac Hayes,
Graham Central Station,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Aaron Thompson,
Blake Baxter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Massinfluence,
The New Christs,
The Busters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Man Parrish,
The J.B.'s,
OOIOO,
Fat Boys,
Ten City,
David Axelrod,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.