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 Belgium and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Skriet to the disco 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pet Shop Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pylon,
Ice-T,
Minny Pops,
Idris Muhammad,
Sister Nancy,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Niagra,
Second Layer,
Bizarre Inc.,
La Düsseldorf,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
MDC,
Tim Buckley,
Unrelated Segments,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter and Kerry,
The Residents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
FM Einheit,
The Martian,
The Litter,
Eden Ahbez,
Banda Bassotti,
The Smiths,
Guru Guru,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Count Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
X-101,
Deepchord,
The Invisible,
the Bar-Kays,
Pussy Galore,
Drive Like Jehu,
Hot Snakes,
Sun Ra,
John Coltrane,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fortunes,
Basic Channel,
Talk Talk,
Frankie Knuckles,
Delta 5,
CMW,
Jacob Miller,
The Busters,
Fela Kuti,
Crash Course in Science,
Marvin Gaye,
The Mojo Men,
Thee Headcoats,
Yellowson,
Massinfluence,
Gabor Szabo,
The Pop Group,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
The Standells,
Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light, Clear Light.
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.