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 Gambia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum 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 Thee Headcoats to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
John Foxx,
Quando Quango,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Skatalites,
Pylon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gichy Dan,
The Human League,
Black Flag,
The Beau Brummels,
Tres Demented,
Funkadelic,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nas,
The Misunderstood,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gregory Isaacs,
Television Personalities,
Hardrive,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Sherman,
Mantronix,
Second Layer,
Rapeman,
Connie Case,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
8 Eyed Spy,
Pole,
Lucky Dragons,
Yusef Lateef,
Isaac Hayes,
Liliput,
Marine Girls,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Robert Hood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Stooges,
MDC,
Spandau Ballet,
Mary Jane Girls,
The United States of America,
The Leaves,
The Cramps,
Barrington Levy,
The Golliwogs,
ABBA,
Young Marble Giants,
The Happenings,
Reuben Wilson,
Niagra,
Danielle Patucci,
Eli Mardock,
Gang Starr,
The Names,
Crime,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Quantec,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.