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 Costa Rica and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Lou Reed 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 Jacob Miller to the grime 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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Colin Newman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stereo Dub,
Anthony Braxton,
Motorama,
Trumans Water,
Al Stewart,
Ituana,
Loose Ends,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool Moe Dee,
Au Pairs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Dennis Brown,
Camouflage,
Animal Collective,
Kurtis Blow,
the Soft Cell,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Steve Hackett,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Infiniti,
Kevin Saunderson,
Maleditus Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Barrington Levy,
Barclay James Harvest,
PIL,
Arcadia,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ornette Coleman,
Brothers Johnson,
Ludus,
Fugazi,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Alice Coltrane,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Star Department,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Franke,
Curtis Mayfield,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Suburban Knight,
The Saints,
Tom Boy,
Eric Copeland,
The Fire Engines,
The Neon Judgement,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacob Miller,
Yazoo,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cramps,
Dead Boys,
Skaos,
Amazonics,
DJ Sneak,
La Düsseldorf,
The Names,
Gerry Rafferty,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.