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 Bolivia and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the disco 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Model 500 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faraquet,
Drive Like Jehu,
Country Teasers,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Hardrive,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Eli Mardock,
Tomorrow,
The Toasters,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Scientists,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dennis Brown,
Idris Muhammad,
Flipper,
Unwound,
New Order,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deepchord,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sonics,
Lower 48,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boogie Down Productions,
Susan Cadogan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nirvana,
Aural Exciters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
B.T. Express,
Toni Rubio,
Half Japanese,
Silicon Teens,
Tropical Tobacco,
CMW,
Sight & Sound,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Velvet Underground,
Sugar Minott,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
EPMD,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Blossom Toes,
Andrew Hill,
Index,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dave Gahan,
Ken Boothe,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Los Fastidios,
Ralphi Rosario,
Suburban Knight,
Vainqueur,
Delta 5,
Sun City Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.