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 Ecuador and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Tomorrow to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Warren Ellis,
The Flesh Eaters,
Dual Sessions,
Aural Exciters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Happenings,
Mantronix,
Half Japanese,
Chris & Cosey,
Maurizio,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Suburban Knight,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Slackers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lower 48,
Bang On A Can,
Visage,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cure,
Eve St. Jones,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Clear Light,
Radiohead,
Patti Smith,
Essential Logic,
Tubeway Army,
Bluetip,
K-Klass,
CMW,
This Heat,
Marine Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
The United States of America,
Desert Stars,
The Mummies,
Banda Bassotti,
Tears for Fears,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lightning Bolt,
The Dead C,
The Wake,
Bronski Beat,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Animal Collective,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Scratch Acid,
10cc,
E-Dancer,
a-ha,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pulsallama,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wally Richardson,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.