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 Fiji and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 synthesizer 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 Organ to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Beasts of Bourbon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lindisfarne,
Technova,
Q and Not U,
Slick Rick,
Schoolly D,
Echospace,
The Grass Roots,
The Moleskins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Magazine,
The Dirtbombs,
MC5,
Black Bananas,
Babytalk,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rod Modell,
Silicon Teens,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Groovy Waters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jeru the Damaja,
Henry Cow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tres Demented,
Altered Images,
Unwound,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sound Behaviour,
The Young Rascals,
Symarip,
Erasure,
Yusef Lateef,
Patti Smith,
Jandek,
Metal Thangz,
Niagra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nick Fraelich,
Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Circle Jerks,
The Gap Band,
The Standells,
Smog,
The Human League,
Fela Kuti,
The Monks,
Todd Terry,
La Düsseldorf,
Joyce Sims,
Pharoah Sanders,
Qualms,
Saccharine Trust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Associates,
ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC.
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.