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 Seychelles and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 spring reverb 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 Henry Cow to the rock 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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Piero Umiliani,
The Offenders,
Bobby Womack,
The Misunderstood,
Harmonia,
Funkadelic,
Shoche,
Archie Shepp,
Mandrill,
John Coltrane,
Y Pants,
Lungfish,
The Dave Clark Five,
Donny Hathaway,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cluster,
The Dirtbombs,
Inner City,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Darondo,
Tim Buckley,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Barracudas,
Hardrive,
Moss Icon,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Agent Orange,
Tres Demented,
Lakeside,
Tommy Roe,
The Searchers,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Modern Lovers,
Unwound,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Velvet Underground,
Scan 7,
Tears for Fears,
Barrington Levy,
The Zeros,
Jacob Miller,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Basic Channel,
The Martian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Walker Brothers,
Blossom Toes,
Heaven 17,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
Lucky Dragons,
Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat, Minor Threat.
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.