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 Turkmenistan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Lee Hazlewood to the electroclash 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All The Motions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Qualms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro 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 Blackbyrds,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Subhumans,
Ultra Naté,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Last Poets,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Gang Dance,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Halsall,
Royal Trux,
World's Most,
Ituana,
Wolf Eyes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Brick,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Slackers,
Danielle Patucci,
Janne Schatter,
Tom Boy,
Al Stewart,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kool Moe Dee,
Q65,
Siglo XX,
John Foxx,
Pulsallama,
Black Pus,
Joe Finger,
Yazoo,
Curtis Mayfield,
Morten Harket,
The Cramps,
Talk Talk,
The Moody Blues,
Avey Tare,
Henry Cow,
Babytalk,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonny Sharrock,
A Certain Ratio,
Kerri Chandler,
Little Man,
Blossom Toes,
Symarip,
K-Klass,
the Germs,
T. Rex,
Fluxion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Harry Pussy,
The Black Dice,
T.S.O.L.,
Sun Ra,
Roy Ayers,
The Wake,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.