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 Panama and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Boredoms to the funk 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 Cal Tjader. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The American Breed,
Stiv Bators,
Bush Tetras,
Andrew Hill,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Moleskins,
Yaz,
the Fania All-Stars,
X-102,
Moss Icon,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Womack,
Quadrant,
Maleditus Sound,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thee Headcoats,
Skarface,
Terry Callier,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Flag,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Inner City,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
Franke,
kango's stein massive,
Minnie Riperton,
Glambeats Corp.,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
The Toasters,
Joy Division,
Loose Ends,
The Fire Engines,
Alice Coltrane,
Darondo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Panda Bear,
Lee Hazlewood,
This Heat,
Basic Channel,
Outsiders,
Chris & Cosey,
Frankie Knuckles,
Howard Jones,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Negative Approach,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Delta 5,
Archie Shepp,
Monolake,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Mummies,
LL Cool J,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Section 25,
Ultravox,
Reagan Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.