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 South Sudan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Joey Negro,
The Pretty Things,
Half Japanese,
Gichy Dan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jandek,
The Blues Magoos,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Monochrome Set,
Cymande,
Ohio Players,
The Detroit Cobras,
Japan,
Isaac Hayes,
Shoche,
Flipper,
a-ha,
Intrusion,
Crooked Eye,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kayak,
Scan 7,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sarah Menescal,
Bauhaus,
Tomorrow,
Zapp,
The Count Five,
Connie Case,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Sonics,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Hill,
Adolescents,
Tom Boy,
the Soft Cell,
Brothers Johnson,
Harry Pussy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Colin Newman,
Duran Duran,
E-Dancer,
Fugazi,
Wasted Youth,
The Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
Gang of Four,
Pharoah Sanders,
These Immortal Souls,
Vladislav Delay,
Scrapy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lungfish,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Blake Baxter,
Livin' Joy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Moody Blues,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.