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 Philippines and from Stockholm.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jandek to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stiv Bators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
cv313,
Silicon Teens,
The Young Rascals,
Skarface,
CMW,
K-Klass,
LL Cool J,
Cameo,
Pantytec,
Soft Cell,
Delon & Dalcan,
Slick Rick,
Rotary Connection,
the Association,
Kas Product,
Scion,
Donald Byrd,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Sound,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Robert Wyatt,
MDC,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Sherman,
Public Enemy,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang of Four,
Depeche Mode,
Archie Shepp,
The Busters,
Funky Four + One,
The Misunderstood,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Loose Ends,
The Dirtbombs,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Normal,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Darondo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oblivians,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Janne Schatter,
Godley & Creme,
Pagans,
The Gap Band,
Porter Ricks,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Idris Muhammad,
Camouflage,
The Music Machine,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Piero Umiliani,
Brothers Johnson,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.