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 Solomon Islands and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 guitar 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 The Motions 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 Fifty Foot Hose. All the underground hits.
All Junior Murvin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Aswad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Terry Callier,
Moss Icon,
Andrew Hill,
Wire,
Young Marble Giants,
Deadbeat,
T. Rex,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Black Sheep,
The Skatalites,
Crispian St. Peters,
Kayak,
The Human League,
Drexciya,
Albert Ayler,
Oneida,
Audionom,
Minor Threat,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Alice Coltrane,
Dennis Brown,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Names,
Sound Behaviour,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Dawn Penn,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Malaria!,
Scan 7,
Rites of Spring,
The Saints,
The Vogues,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Dirtbombs,
Cybotron,
Glenn Branca,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
R.M.O.,
Bluetip,
The Kinks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Chrome,
Gang Green,
Ohio Players,
Stiv Bators,
Howard Jones,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Fatback Band,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.