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 Italy and from Sao Paulo.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Pere Ubu 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 Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Zero Boys,
Gregory Isaacs,
Chrome,
Joe Finger,
Khruangbin,
Y Pants,
Public Enemy,
Godley & Creme,
Althea and Donna,
Cameo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Deakin,
Second Layer,
Hasil Adkins,
Aswad,
Absolute Body Control,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Japan,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Vogues,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Panda Bear,
Byron Stingily,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scrapy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television,
June Days,
Mark Hollis,
The Cowsills,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fortunes,
Alton Ellis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sam Rivers,
Alice Coltrane,
Loose Ends,
Qualms,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Standells,
Negative Approach,
Trumans Water,
The Walker Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
Inner City,
Roxette,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Clear Light,
Girls At Our Best!,
Pagans,
Franke,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Graham Central Station,
Yellowson,
FM Einheit,
Brothers Johnson,
Ohio Players,
The Gun Club,
Amon Düül,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.