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 Turkey and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Tehran.
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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kevin Saunderson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lower 48 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Avey Tare,
Bill Near,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lou Reed,
Depeche Mode,
Matthew Bourne,
Rhythm & Sound,
Shoche,
Todd Rundgren,
Cymande,
The Slits,
The Angels of Light,
Mandrill,
Accadde A,
Kerri Chandler,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Hood,
Deadbeat,
Albert Ayler,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Cameo,
PIL,
Junior Murvin,
The Last Poets,
Connie Case,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kenny Larkin,
The Neon Judgement,
Fatback Band,
Parry Music,
Quadrant,
Pet Shop Boys,
Au Pairs,
MDC,
B.T. Express,
The Moleskins,
Bad Manners,
Section 25,
Newcleus,
Vainqueur,
Gerry Rafferty,
X-101,
Alison Limerick,
Wally Richardson,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fortunes,
Ice-T,
Can,
Camouflage,
Kerrie Biddell,
Marvin Gaye,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Animal Collective,
Black Flag,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Smoke,
Bobby Byrd,
Tomorrow,
Curtis Mayfield,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.