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 Croatia and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound Behaviour to the punk 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Letta Mbulu,
Cal Tjader,
Ohio Players,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kas Product,
The Remains,
Minutemen,
Piero Umiliani,
Television Personalities,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Robert Görl,
EPMD,
Freddie Wadling,
Radio Birdman,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skriet,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Silicon Teens,
Moss Icon,
Eddi Front,
Aswad,
The Standells,
Section 25,
D'Angelo,
Faust,
The Doors,
Joyce Sims,
Deakin,
Blossom Toes,
Clear Light,
Barry Ungar,
Fat Boys,
Slick Rick,
Lower 48,
Crooked Eye,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Sherman,
The American Breed,
Newcleus,
Urselle,
Aaron Thompson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wire,
Scrapy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DJ Sneak,
Swans,
Soul Sonic Force,
Little Man,
The Zeros,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Parry Music,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Velvet Underground,
Moby Grape,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.