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 Namibia 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Gang Starr to the dance 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 Wake. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. 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?
Warren Ellis,
Faraquet,
Pantytec,
The Grass Roots,
Amazonics,
Funky Four + One,
Alison Limerick,
Gang Gang Dance,
Oblivians,
Neu!,
Pussy Galore,
Wings,
Robert Hood,
Panda Bear,
The Leaves,
Negative Approach,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick May,
Cymande,
June of 44,
Ossler,
One Last Wish,
Pylon,
The Moleskins,
The Fugs,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Black Pus,
Intrusion,
Alton Ellis,
The Pretty Things,
Anakelly,
Harmonia,
The Buckinghams,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Bauhaus,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeff Lynne,
Gabor Szabo,
Patti Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Aloha Tigers,
Groovy Waters,
Tommy Roe,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Blossom Toes,
Jawbox,
The Zeros,
Simply Red,
Average White Band,
Fela Kuti,
Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget, Fad Gadget.
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.