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 Belize and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
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 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 Grandmaster Flash to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Image Ltd.. All the underground hits.
All Steve Hackett tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Near,
Mission of Burma,
Inner City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Newcleus,
Groovy Waters,
Sight & Sound,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Easy Going,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Moody Blues,
Idris Muhammad,
Minutemen,
Gastr Del Sol,
David Axelrod,
Interpol,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Fire Engines,
Skaos,
Banda Bassotti,
The Busters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Peter & Gordon,
Letta Mbulu,
Rekid,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grey Daturas,
Todd Rundgren,
The Raincoats,
The Buckinghams,
Dorothy Ashby,
Technova,
Moss Icon,
Camouflage,
L. Decosne,
Moby Grape,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Soft Machine,
Jandek,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Con Funk Shun,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
A Certain Ratio,
Albert Ayler,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Pharoah Sanders,
the Normal,
The Pop Group,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wire,
Clear Light,
Crime,
The Knickerbockers,
Cecil Taylor,
Gabor Szabo,
The Human League,
The Doobie Brothers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mo-Dettes,
Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith, Jerry Gold Smith.
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.