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 Brazil and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Howard Jones to the rock 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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Loose Ends,
A Certain Ratio,
Gang Starr,
Spoonie Gee,
Kas Product,
Delta 5,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joensuu 1685,
Fluxion,
The Tremeloes,
Tres Demented,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joe Smooth,
Gang Green,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hashim,
Judy Mowatt,
The Sonics,
This Heat,
Icehouse,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonic Youth,
Cymande,
Silicon Teens,
The Associates,
Moss Icon,
Black Flag,
DJ Sneak,
Young Marble Giants,
Urselle,
Kaleidoscope,
Moebius,
Ice-T,
The Leaves,
The Divine Comedy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Severed Heads,
The Busters,
Lalann,
The Victims,
the Sonics,
Franke,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
PIL,
MC5,
Kerrie Biddell,
10cc,
Donald Byrd,
Parry Music,
Camberwell Now,
the Fania All-Stars,
Black Pus,
The Standells,
The Blues Magoos,
Minnie Riperton,
The Moody Blues,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cameo,
Pantytec,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.