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 Fiji and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 Ponytail to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All The Dead C tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Black Dice,
John Foxx,
Anakelly,
Fluxion,
the Soft Cell,
Ultra Naté,
Faraquet,
China Crisis,
Dave Gahan,
Bad Manners,
Altered Images,
Freddie Wadling,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Detroit Cobras,
DJ Style,
Agent Orange,
Stetsasonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sixth Finger,
Skarface,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Cecil Taylor,
The Happenings,
Black Flag,
Peter and Kerry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
10cc,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Dead C,
Faust,
Oneida,
Sugar Minott,
The Gories,
Fatback Band,
The Doors,
The Tremeloes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Hill,
Rakim,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Evens,
Kerri Chandler,
Index,
Rufus Thomas,
Amon Düül II,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cameo,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ash Ra Tempel,
a-ha,
Accadde A,
Basic Channel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rapeman,
Royal Trux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.