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 Singapore and from Mexico City.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Whodini to the funk 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 The Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Radiohead,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Sheep,
The American Breed,
Piero Umiliani,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arthur Verocai,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heaven 17,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Frankie Knuckles,
Derrick Morgan,
This Heat,
Harry Pussy,
Tears for Fears,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pantytec,
Kenny Larkin,
Darondo,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Agitation Free,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Real Kids,
Au Pairs,
The Gap Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Qualms,
Fat Boys,
Kayak,
The Names,
Shoche,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
The Durutti Column,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
Whodini,
Reuben Wilson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Make Up,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Move,
Spoonie Gee,
Tubeway Army,
Nils Olav,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Los Fastidios,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skarface,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Althea and Donna,
the Sonics,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.