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 Montenegro 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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the disco 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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Interpol,
Rotary Connection,
Vladislav Delay,
Bad Manners,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Can,
The Gun Club,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alice Coltrane,
Bush Tetras,
10cc,
This Heat,
Gong,
Rakim,
Pylon,
The Count Five,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fall,
Cal Tjader,
Rekid,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Neil Young,
Sugar Minott,
Japan,
Goldenarms,
Malaria!,
Amazonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Order,
James White and The Blacks,
Shuggie Otis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-101,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
UT,
Procol Harum,
The Smiths,
Crime,
The Offenders,
Scrapy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Oblivians,
The Gories,
The Martian,
Alphaville,
Jawbox,
Roy Ayers,
The American Breed,
The Invisible,
Fatback Band,
The Music Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultra Naté,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grauzone,
Sam Rivers,
Mission of Burma,
The Techniques,
The Velvet Underground,
The Wake,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.