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 Australia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 theremin 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 Qualms to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Flesh Eaters,
Slave,
Eddi Front,
The Moleskins,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobby Womack,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eden Ahbez,
Erasure,
Deadbeat,
Brass Construction,
The Last Poets,
MDC,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joe Finger,
Suicide,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mandrill,
T.S.O.L.,
The Toasters,
John Lydon,
Sam Rivers,
Guru Guru,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Subhumans,
Hardrive,
Pierre Henry,
The Victims,
Bluetip,
Nico,
Negative Approach,
World's Most,
Hashim,
Laurel Aitken,
Sight & Sound,
Dave Gahan,
Black Flag,
Sarah Menescal,
Ken Boothe,
Erykah Badu,
John Holt,
Maurizio,
Camouflage,
Hasil Adkins,
Pussy Galore,
the Association,
Anthony Braxton,
Technova,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Japan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roy Ayers,
Television,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Q65,
Davy DMX,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.