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 Gabon and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Moby Grape to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aswad record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dead Boys,
Ituana,
The Blackbyrds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eve St. Jones,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
10cc,
The Busters,
Max Romeo,
Camberwell Now,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Easy Going,
The Durutti Column,
kango's stein massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Remains,
Maurizio,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Moon,
Ornette Coleman,
Rotary Connection,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Monochrome Set,
Boz Scaggs,
Brass Construction,
Junior Murvin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Albert Ayler,
Altered Images,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Soft Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
A Certain Ratio,
Patti Smith,
Mission of Burma,
The Residents,
In Retrospect,
Jacob Miller,
The Fall,
The United States of America,
Danielle Patucci,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sam Rivers,
Grey Daturas,
Tomorrow,
Grandmaster Flash,
The American Breed,
Soulsonic Force,
Gang of Four,
Suburban Knight,
Underground Resistance,
Jacques Brel,
Smog,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
La Düsseldorf,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.