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 Kuwait and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 snare 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 Althea and Donna to the grunge 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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,
The Dave Clark Five,
Guru Guru,
Bootsy Collins,
Thee Headcoats,
Yusef Lateef,
Easy Going,
Sun City Girls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Althea and Donna,
Crooked Eye,
Graham Central Station,
The Doobie Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erykah Badu,
Tim Buckley,
Kas Product,
Eddi Front,
Byron Stingily,
The Walker Brothers,
Fela Kuti,
David Bowie,
Sex Pistols,
Glenn Branca,
Q and Not U,
FM Einheit,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ohio Players,
Tears for Fears,
Zero Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
Moebius,
The Misunderstood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Josef K,
Sugar Minott,
the Swans,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Motorama,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Silicon Teens,
Sound Behaviour,
Brass Construction,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Rod Modell,
Unrelated Segments,
Wings,
Aaron Thompson,
Eve St. Jones,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Byrd,
Trumans Water,
The Black Dice,
Bang On A Can,
Barry Ungar,
Royal Trux,
The New Christs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.