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 Brunei and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Woodstock.
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 guitar 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 Silicon Teens to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Newcleus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
ABC,
T. Rex,
Tommy Roe,
Black Flag,
X-102,
These Immortal Souls,
Todd Terry,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tears for Fears,
Crime,
Audionom,
Surgeon,
Judy Mowatt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roger Hodgson,
Public Enemy,
Cheater Slicks,
Index,
Junior Murvin,
Peter and Kerry,
Main Source,
Duran Duran,
AZ,
Flipper,
ABBA,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Charles Mingus,
The Skatalites,
The Zeros,
The Cure,
EPMD,
Rotary Connection,
Jacques Brel,
Sound Behaviour,
The Flesh Eaters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Swans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fugs,
Fatback Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Davy DMX,
A Certain Ratio,
The Names,
Fat Boys,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Boz Scaggs,
Blossom Toes,
Khruangbin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Kerri Chandler,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.