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 Barbados and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Curtis Mayfield to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ten City,
Quantec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fad Gadget,
Sparks,
Camberwell Now,
Janne Schatter,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Alton Ellis,
Charles Mingus,
Max Romeo,
Crash Course in Science,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Minny Pops,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fuzztones,
Gregory Isaacs,
kango's stein massive,
Jeru the Damaja,
Marcia Griffiths,
Harry Pussy,
Duran Duran,
E-Dancer,
Curtis Mayfield,
Mission of Burma,
Anakelly,
Scrapy,
Warren Ellis,
Cameo,
The Monks,
Reuben Wilson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Qualms,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Slave,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Real Kids,
Piero Umiliani,
Mark Hollis,
Loose Ends,
Underground Resistance,
Tears for Fears,
UT,
Arcadia,
Don Cherry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Shuggie Otis,
Yazoo,
Jacques Brel,
Deepchord,
Groovy Waters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Malaria!,
David Axelrod,
The Happenings,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.