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 France and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 Joe Smooth to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Matthew Halsall 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Blancmange,
The Vogues,
Mary Jane Girls,
Bad Manners,
Mars,
Roger Hodgson,
John Lydon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
KRS-One,
Ponytail,
T. Rex,
Robert Görl,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eric B and Rakim,
Fear,
Goldenarms,
Dawn Penn,
Mandrill,
Nils Olav,
Kayak,
The Offenders,
Idris Muhammad,
Pere Ubu,
Desert Stars,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Toni Rubio,
Joy Division,
The Selecter,
Japan,
Quantec,
Ken Boothe,
D'Angelo,
Hardrive,
Rod Modell,
Ralphi Rosario,
Surgeon,
The J.B.'s,
The Fall,
Kas Product,
Guru Guru,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Amon Düül II,
Cecil Taylor,
Aural Exciters,
Motorama,
DNA,
Lower 48,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
X-101,
Kevin Saunderson,
Franke,
The Stooges,
the Swans,
Pole,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.