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 Bolivia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ituana to the funk 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rhythim Is Rhythim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Howard Jones,
X-Ray Spex,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pantytec,
Schoolly D,
Pole,
Gerry Rafferty,
Inner City,
Heaven 17,
Bobby Sherman,
Country Teasers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Terry Callier,
AZ,
Barrington Levy,
Roy Ayers,
Eric Dolphy,
Monolake,
The Evens,
One Last Wish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rakim,
R.M.O.,
Carl Craig,
Arthur Verocai,
Silicon Teens,
Byron Stingily,
Scott Walker,
Altered Images,
Nick Fraelich,
Slick Rick,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Five Americans,
Davy DMX,
Sight & Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Yusef Lateef,
John Lydon,
Eric Copeland,
Stereo Dub,
Outsiders,
Stiv Bators,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Sonics,
Fugazi,
Zero Boys,
Delta 5,
Traffic Nightmare,
Warren Ellis,
Duran Duran,
Ultravox,
Scientists,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Au Pairs,
Scrapy,
Quadrant,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Index,
Grey Daturas,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.