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 Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Cairo.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Television Personalities to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '70s.
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 Gang of Four record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
The Monochrome Set,
Joensuu 1685,
Warren Ellis,
T. Rex,
Moebius,
John Lydon,
DJ Sneak,
Average White Band,
Black Flag,
Skarface,
Hardrive,
Liliput,
Scrapy,
Brass Construction,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Slits,
Rhythm & Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dennis Brown,
Dawn Penn,
The Young Rascals,
Scan 7,
Camouflage,
China Crisis,
Pagans,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Heaven 17,
DNA,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Blues Magoos,
The Divine Comedy,
Rotary Connection,
Juan Atkins,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ronan,
The Pretty Things,
the Normal,
Eric Dolphy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Negative Approach,
cv313,
Adolescents,
Marmalade,
The Doobie Brothers,
Audionom,
Laurel Aitken,
The Martian,
Patti Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
Yazoo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stereo Dub,
Roy Ayers,
Rakim,
Tres Demented,
Blossom Toes,
The Pop Group,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.