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 Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin 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 The Misunderstood to the electroclash 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Japan,
Adolescents,
The Real Kids,
Nirvana,
Theoretical Girls,
The Remains,
the Soft Cell,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Raincoats,
Rapeman,
Rufus Thomas,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chris & Cosey,
JFA,
Vainqueur,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fluxion,
Sandy B,
The Walker Brothers,
Reuben Wilson,
Max Romeo,
Symarip,
The Standells,
UT,
Spoonie Gee,
Guru Guru,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dawn Penn,
The Move,
the Fania All-Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
Quantec,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Monks,
Youth Brigade,
Alton Ellis,
Hoover,
Marmalade,
One Last Wish,
Dead Boys,
Deakin,
Little Man,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Fela Kuti,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Graham Central Station,
Grey Daturas,
Bob Dylan,
Supertramp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Archie Shepp,
The Selecter,
Donny Hathaway,
John Coltrane,
Fear,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.