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 Angola and from Lagos.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 K-Klass to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
Camberwell Now,
Prince Buster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Letta Mbulu,
The Toasters,
Lungfish,
Amon Düül,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Sneak,
David McCallum,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rakim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Magazine,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kas Product,
Fatback Band,
Livin' Joy,
Mission of Burma,
Suburban Knight,
The Saints,
Marine Girls,
Shoche,
Rotary Connection,
Drexciya,
Unrelated Segments,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gabor Szabo,
Idris Muhammad,
Glenn Branca,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
The Kinks,
Animal Collective,
John Coltrane,
the Human League,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eden Ahbez,
Skaos,
Talk Talk,
Radio Birdman,
Roxette,
The Durutti Column,
Blake Baxter,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
T.S.O.L.,
Brass Construction,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Crooked Eye,
Pulsallama,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Trojans,
Quantec,
Clear Light,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.