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 Canada and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Angels of Light. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Niagra,
Joe Smooth,
Slave,
The Associates,
Lalann,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Make Up,
The Residents,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Tremeloes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
MC5,
Public Enemy,
a-ha,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stereo Dub,
The Young Rascals,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Excepter,
Lungfish,
Sonic Youth,
Severed Heads,
Robert Görl,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bob Dylan,
La Düsseldorf,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Marine Girls,
Suburban Knight,
Alice Coltrane,
Sällskapet,
Mad Mike,
Radiohead,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tres Demented,
Slick Rick,
Gang Green,
Althea and Donna,
Pet Shop Boys,
June Days,
The Slackers,
Jeff Mills,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Magma,
Liliput,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Cure,
Rhythm & Sound,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Donald Byrd,
Joensuu 1685,
X-102,
Eric B and Rakim,
Nick Fraelich,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.