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 Mexico and from Beijing.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 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 Dorothy Ashby to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 David McCallum. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Clarke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Cluster,
The Gap Band,
Procol Harum,
The Angels of Light,
The Leaves,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Grass Roots,
Altered Images,
The Barracudas,
Pylon,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Stooges,
Prince Buster,
The Dead C,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pagans,
Jeff Lynne,
Robert Hood,
Lungfish,
Pussy Galore,
E-Dancer,
Amazonics,
Saccharine Trust,
Quando Quango,
Blake Baxter,
Wings,
Cecil Taylor,
the Human League,
Guru Guru,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Q65,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terry Callier,
The Neon Judgement,
Chris Corsano,
Sound Behaviour,
The Skatalites,
Traffic Nightmare,
Byron Stingily,
Livin' Joy,
Surgeon,
Royal Trux,
Barbara Tucker,
Brick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magma,
Boz Scaggs,
The Residents,
Stereo Dub,
The Moleskins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warsaw,
New Age Steppers,
The Saints,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.