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 Burkina and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 güiro 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 Inner City to the rock 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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marc Almond,
Ken Boothe,
The New Christs,
Surgeon,
The Monochrome Set,
Oneida,
Rod Modell,
Fugazi,
The Happenings,
The Divine Comedy,
Erykah Badu,
Harmonia,
Nation of Ulysses,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Circle Jerks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Johnny Osbourne,
Pantytec,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Tres Demented,
The Residents,
Monolake,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cymande,
Danielle Patucci,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Zero Boys,
The Toasters,
Andrew Hill,
Eve St. Jones,
Dawn Penn,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Donny Hathaway,
Mars,
Scion,
Hashim,
Max Romeo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Mandrill,
Unwound,
The Skatalites,
Pulsallama,
Sexual Harrassment,
Inner City,
Suicide,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Ludus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cybotron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Halsall,
Mantronix,
Tropical Tobacco,
X-Ray Spex,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.