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 Gambia and from Jakarta.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Hong Kong.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Joey Negro to the jazz 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Selector Dub Narcotic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
Thompson Twins,
Jeff Mills,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Siglo XX,
Fluxion,
Funky Four + One,
Funkadelic,
Flipper,
The Mojo Men,
Malaria!,
L. Decosne,
Erykah Badu,
Harry Pussy,
Toni Rubio,
MC5,
Dorothy Ashby,
Wire,
Ituana,
The Red Krayola,
Eric Copeland,
Cal Tjader,
Sällskapet,
The Litter,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Warren Ellis,
DJ Sneak,
Kenny Larkin,
The Leaves,
Q and Not U,
Los Fastidios,
Bang On A Can,
Lucky Dragons,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
KRS-One,
Organ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Deakin,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roy Ayers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eden Ahbez,
Zapp,
X-101,
Cecil Taylor,
Massinfluence,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
Simply Red,
Idris Muhammad,
Erasure,
The New Christs,
Hardrive,
Duran Duran,
Neu!,
David Bowie,
Pylon,
Y Pants,
Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy, Livin' Joy.
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.