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 Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 chamberlin 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 Mars to the jazz 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare 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 Association,
Eve St. Jones,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Cecil Taylor,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Techniques,
Half Japanese,
Television,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Seeds,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Monolake,
The Kinks,
LL Cool J,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Echospace,
CMW,
The Remains,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
Khruangbin,
Trumans Water,
DJ Sneak,
The Index,
Junior Murvin,
Fugazi,
Fat Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
June Days,
Eric B and Rakim,
Anthony Braxton,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
New York Dolls,
Anakelly,
Oblivians,
The Durutti Column,
The Gories,
The Wake,
Amon Düül II,
Mark Hollis,
Gang of Four,
The Standells,
Isaac Hayes,
Dual Sessions,
The Black Dice,
Tubeway Army,
Section 25,
Joe Smooth,
David Bowie,
Tres Demented,
Matthew Halsall,
Deepchord,
Matthew Bourne,
Second Layer,
Cluster,
The Evens,
Monks,
Pere Ubu,
Tom Boy,
Gabor Szabo,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.