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 Kiribati and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Soft Machine to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Althea and Donna tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siglo XX 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?
Dawn Penn,
Camberwell Now,
kango's stein massive,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Toasters,
Kevin Saunderson,
Clear Light,
Youth Brigade,
Echospace,
Mantronix,
Deakin,
Organ,
Chrome,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Main Source,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Pretty Things,
Mr. Review,
Gang of Four,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Mummies,
Grauzone,
R.M.O.,
Aloha Tigers,
The Shadows of Knight,
Interpol,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Stooges,
Supertramp,
Liliput,
Kayak,
The United States of America,
Magma,
Negative Approach,
Dual Sessions,
The Blackbyrds,
Deepchord,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Isaac Hayes,
Lou Reed,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Swans,
Fad Gadget,
Lindisfarne,
Desert Stars,
Shoche,
the Bar-Kays,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Judy Mowatt,
Make Up,
Peter and Kerry,
Neu!,
Soulsonic Force,
Radio Birdman,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerri Chandler,
Gong,
The Dead C,
Duran Duran,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.