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 New Zealand and from Bologna.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Michael McDonald 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 Sonics to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Silicon Teens,
Sound Behaviour,
The Music Machine,
Dual Sessions,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
David Axelrod,
Minny Pops,
H. Thieme,
F. McDonald,
Bill Near,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lalo Schifrin,
Stiv Bators,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Marcia Griffiths,
Groovy Waters,
The Happenings,
B.T. Express,
Subhumans,
Scott Walker,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Brass Construction,
Livin' Joy,
David McCallum,
Isaac Hayes,
Minutemen,
Public Enemy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Divine Comedy,
Rosa Yemen,
Warren Ellis,
Skaos,
Rakim,
Royal Trux,
Graham Central Station,
Kas Product,
Tomorrow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stetsasonic,
Animal Collective,
Radiopuhelimet,
Moss Icon,
Ronnie Foster,
Pussy Galore,
Interpol,
Sexual Harrassment,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Offenders,
Grey Daturas,
Ituana,
Oneida,
Tim Buckley,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Colin Newman,
New Order,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.