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 Tonga and from Glasgow.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 Lightning Bolt to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Janne Schatter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soulsonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Glenn Branca,
Thompson Twins,
Harmonia,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ludus,
the Swans,
The Birthday Party,
Television,
Neil Young,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Young Marble Giants,
Donny Hathaway,
ABBA,
The Martian,
Scratch Acid,
Minor Threat,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
LL Cool J,
The Barracudas,
Oneida,
Stetsasonic,
The Happenings,
Minnie Riperton,
The United States of America,
Todd Rundgren,
Drexciya,
Jeff Mills,
DNA,
Gastr Del Sol,
Echospace,
The Move,
Inner City,
Moss Icon,
OOIOO,
Arcadia,
Slave,
John Lydon,
Bang On A Can,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Subhumans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Sugar Minott,
Prince Buster,
Josef K,
Lyres,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rotary Connection,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Shuggie Otis,
Grandmaster Flash,
Severed Heads,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Pus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
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.