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 Singapore and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Donald Fagen 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 Von Mondo to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Black Sheep. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donald Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Lakeside,
Interpol,
Hoover,
Sandy B,
Spandau Ballet,
The Young Rascals,
Joe Finger,
Don Cherry,
Arab on Radar,
Motorama,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camouflage,
Vladislav Delay,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bootsy Collins,
Deepchord,
Ronnie Foster,
Joensuu 1685,
The United States of America,
Slave,
Fatback Band,
DNA,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Busters,
ABBA,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Sonics,
MDC,
The Pretty Things,
Symarip,
The Remains,
Toni Rubio,
Warren Ellis,
The Fuzztones,
Niagra,
Cluster,
Essential Logic,
Swell Maps,
Sällskapet,
Sound Behaviour,
The Zeros,
The Mojo Men,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Marshall Jefferson,
Roxette,
Lalann,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Quando Quango,
Mad Mike,
Little Man,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Television Personalities,
Rosa Yemen,
Kevin Saunderson,
La Düsseldorf,
8 Eyed Spy,
Q65,
Junior Murvin,
Scientists,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.