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 Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 theremin 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Nation of Ulysses tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
The Doors,
Robert Wyatt,
Matthew Halsall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sarah Menescal,
Echospace,
Loose Ends,
Radiohead,
Dennis Brown,
Lightning Bolt,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Chris & Cosey,
Royal Trux,
Sonny Sharrock,
Can,
Dead Boys,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Walker Brothers,
Marmalade,
Accadde A,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxette,
Hashim,
The Pretty Things,
Sparks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Minny Pops,
Suburban Knight,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Stockholm Monsters,
Stereo Dub,
Little Man,
the Germs,
Monolake,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Supertramp,
Outsiders,
Oneida,
John Foxx,
Sight & Sound,
Los Fastidios,
The Invisible,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Masters at Work,
Brick,
Prince Buster,
The Move,
Terry Callier,
Crash Course in Science,
Arab on Radar,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.