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 Rwanda and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Detroit Cobras to the disco 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord 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 marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
U.S. Maple,
The Trojans,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nirvana,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Yazoo,
Grauzone,
Tres Demented,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Golliwogs,
K-Klass,
John Foxx,
Amon Düül,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonic Youth,
Alice Coltrane,
The Moleskins,
Danielle Patucci,
The American Breed,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Black Dice,
Monolake,
Althea and Donna,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rotary Connection,
Pere Ubu,
Stetsasonic,
Half Japanese,
the Sonics,
Nik Kershaw,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lightning Bolt,
Cymande,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fatback Band,
DJ Style,
Curtis Mayfield,
Robert Hood,
Albert Ayler,
The Motions,
The Slits,
The Moody Blues,
Lungfish,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
CMW,
8 Eyed Spy,
Laurel Aitken,
Johnny Clarke,
Soft Cell,
James White and The Blacks,
Qualms,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.